The paper
Under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle, the Clerk / Store Keeper Technical paper runs to 50 questions, and it is the only Army Agniveer paper built in two parts.
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Part I
- General Knowledge — 5 questions.
- General Science — 5 questions.
- Mathematics — 10 questions.
- Computer Science — 5 questions.
Part II
- General English — 25 questions.
Under the ARO rally notifications for the 2027 intake, the paper is answered in one hour.
Read that section list again
Under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle, General English is twenty-five of fifty questions. Half the paper.
No other Army Agniveer category has an English section at all. The General Duty paper has none. The Technical paper has none.
The consequence is worth being blunt about. A Clerk candidate who prepares from generic material has prepared half their paper. The half they skipped is the largest single section in it. If this article achieves one thing, let it be that.
Who may sit it
Under the Army's published eligibility criteria for the current cycle, Clerk / Store Keeper Technical requires 10+2 in any stream at sixty per cent in aggregate.
That is the highest academic bar of the Army's Agniveer categories, and the stream is open — a candidate from any 10+2 stream who meets the percentage is eligible.
General English
Under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle, the published scope for this section is a full English grammar syllabus.
That framing matters for how you prepare. This is not a comprehension section with a passage or two attached. It is grammar, tested directly, across twenty-five questions.
Grammar is unusually rewarding to prepare for, because it is finite and it is stable. Unlike current affairs it does not move between cycles, and unlike a comprehension passage it does not depend on the topic you happen to be given. A candidate who works systematically through the grammar scope is building something that will still be true on exam day.
Mathematics
Under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle, Mathematics carries ten questions — the largest section in Part I, and twice the size of any other section there.
The scope is the 10th-standard mathematics used across the Army's other 10th-standard papers: number systems, fundamental arithmetical operations, algebra, geometry and mensuration.
Computer Science
This section exists in no other Army Agniveer category. Under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle its scope covers operating systems and the common office applications — word processing, presentations and spreadsheets.
Five questions is a small section, and it is also the one where a candidate with everyday computer familiarity can score reliably with modest preparation. It is worth the hour it takes.
General Knowledge and General Science
Five questions each under the published syllabus documents for the current cycle, with the same published scope as the other categories. General Knowledge covers India and its neighbouring countries on history, culture, geography and who's who, plus the Indian Armed Forces, the Constitution, international organisations and recent events. General Science covers physics, chemistry and biology fundamentals oriented to day-to-day activity.
Ten questions between them, against twenty-five for English. Weight your preparation the way the paper is weighted rather than the way habit suggests.
The typing test
Under the ARO rally notifications for the 2027 intake, Clerk / Store Keeper Technical candidates take a typing test during the online CEE. The standard named is thirty words per minute in English, which the notification describes as desirable. Only candidates who qualify proceed.
This is the component candidates most often discover on the day, and it is the one most directly improvable. Typing speed responds to practice quickly and cheaply, and a candidate who spends twenty minutes a day at it for a few weeks arrives in a different position from one who has never timed themselves.
Practise typing in English, on a keyboard, against a clock.
The boundary
The Army's own syllabus document for this category carries the clause that governs everything above:
The above syllabus is not a comprehensive list of topics pertaining to the subject… At times questions may be asked other than the above topics but definitely within the syllabus of CBSE.
No material can claim to cover this paper — the Army has said the paper is not confined to the published list. What material can honestly say is that it covers every topic the Army publishes, with the CBSE boundary stated.
What to do
- Give English the preparation the paper gives it — half the questions.
- Work the grammar systematically — it is finite, and it does not move between cycles.
- Start timing your typing now, in English, on a keyboard.
- Do not use General Duty material for this paper — it has no English section.
- Read the syllabus document attached to your own ARO's notification.
Related reading
- The Army Agniveer Categories, and Why the Category Decides Your Paper
- What "Within the Syllabus of CBSE" Means — and Why No Guide Can Claim to Cover the Army Paper
- How the Army Agniveer CEE Actually Runs — Length, Sections, Languages and Normalisation
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