Rajasthan Board Class 12 Question Paper 2023 Stenography

Rajasthan Board

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Subject : English Stenography

SENIOR SECONDARY EXAMINATION, 2023

Time : 3¼ Hours

Maximum Marks : 40

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE EXAMINEES :
1) Candidates must write first his/her Roll No. on the question paper compulsorily.
2) The shorthand outlines may be written by pencil but the transcription should
not be hand-written but it should be typed.
3) The shorthand note-book must be attached with the answer-book.
4) Only the following punctuations should be dictated :
i) full stops
ii) signs of interrogation
iii) brackets
5) There should be an interval of five minutes after the dictation of each section.
Two and a three-fourth hours will be allowed for transcription of the three
sections of dictation (i.e. excluding the time for dictation and intervals).
6) All the three sections should be dictated at a speed of 80 (Eighty) words
per minute and in one sitting.
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7) 20% marks should be reserved for outline.

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SECTION - A

(Steno Speed 80 words per Minute)

1.S Short Hand - 02

Typing - 08

Total Marks - 10

B. Bhattacharya, IRS

Director General Govt. of India

Ministry of Finance

Department of Revenue

Central Board of / Excise & Customs [¼]

Directorate General of Human

Resource Development

BVSSS Gole Market,

New Delhi - 110001

D.O.F. / No. 8/B/27/HRD(HRM-1)/GST/2021 [½]

Dated : 12th January, / 2022 [¾]

Dear Colleagues,

As you are aware, the Reorganisation of customs formation in CBEC
is to be implemented // w.e.f. 15th of January, 2022. [1]

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(1) The re-organisation involves creation of two new custom
commissionerates / at Nagpur and Indore, redistribution of work [1¼]
and post of Chennai customs V and Appeal II. Mumbai II / Customs [1½]
zone and assignment of customs Functions. Currently being
performed by GST formations to exclusive customs formations.

(2) Consequently, / the reorganisation has necessitated the [1¾]
reallocation of few posts which are currently under the functional
control of GST commissionerates to // the functional control of [2]
customs commissionerates. These posts though under the functional
control of GST commissionerates, were / performing functions [2¼]
pertaining to customs work viz (1) Manning of customs formations
such as minor sea ports, air / ports, ICDs, CFSs, LCSs etc., and (2) [2½]
Customs work related to EOU, SEZ, Brand rate fixation /, Export [2¾]
promotion schems etc.. The administrative control over these posts
is not being changed and the existing cadre // controlling Authority [3]
(CCA) of the GST will continue to exercise such control. Hence,
the said reallocation of / posts will not alter / revise the cadre strength [3¼]
in group ‘B’ and ‘C’ grade officers in any / CCA. Career prospects [3½]
of Gr. B & C cadres, will also not be affected, as they are linked / [3¾]
to the sanctioned strength in the jurisdictional CCA.

With Best Regards,

Yours Sincerely,

Sd/-

(B.Bhattacharya) // [4]

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SECTION - B

(Steno Speed 60 words per Minute)

2.S Short Hand - 02

Typing - 08

Total Marks - 10

PREETI SUDAN, IAS

Secretary Government of India

Department of Health & Family Welfare

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare / [¼]

Do. No. Z. 28015/01/2021 - EMR(Pt.)

Dated the 20th March, 2021 / [½]

Dear Colleague,

This is in continuation to my previous communication to you dated
19.03.2021 with / regard to dealing with N coronavirus / covid - 19. [¾]

The central Government had shared elaborate guidelines on social
Distancing // with all states / UTs on 16.03.2021 (copy enclosed). In [1]
compliance, with some / of the states / UTs issued necessary guidances in [1¼]
this regard, the measures taken by the states / UTs / are not uniform. Expert [1½]
Group constituted under this Ministry has emphasised on a need for uniform
implementation of guideline / on social distancing. It is, therefore, imperative [1¾]
that all the states / UTs take following social distancing measures // [2]

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(1) Regulate hours and work in government offices to reduce congestion
and maintain hygiene.

(2) Regulate working hours / in all services except for essential services. [2¼]
Industrial establishments to adopt staggered timings and regulation of
crowd in market / should also be resorted to. [2½]

(3) Private sector to consider work from home, wherever feasible.

(4) Educational institutions / theatres, museums, gyms, examination centres, [2¾]
etc. to be closed.

(5) Sporting events, competitions // and religious gatherings to be postponed [3]
and maintain required social distancing even in smaller gatherings.

(6) Plan decrease in / Frequency of services of metros, railways, Buses [3¼]
and airplanes ; alternate seating to ensure social distancing ; disinfection
and / crowd control in places like railway stations, metro stations, bus [3½]
stand, airports, etc..

State // UT Governments shave necessary authority under the Epidemic [3¾]
diseases Act, 1897, the disaster Management Act, 2005 and // also under [4]
various provisions of Cr. PC and IPC, as has been already conveyed by me
vide letter D /.O. No.z.28015/19/2020 EMR; dated 13th March, 2020 (copy [4¼]
enclosed). / [4½]

All state / UT Governments are requested to implement these directions
and if required, they may consider invoking relevant / provisions of law, as [4¾]
warrented in larger public interest.

With Regards.

Yours Sincerely

Sd/-

(Preeti Sudan) // [5]

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SECTION - C

(Steno Speed 80 words per Minute)

3.S Short Hand - 04

Typing - 16

Total Marks - 20

DAY HAD DAWNED COLD AND GRAY

When the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail. He climbed the / [¼]
high earth-bank where a little. – Travelled trail led east through the pine forest.
It was a / high bank, and he paused to brea the at the top. He excused the act [½]
to himself by / looking at his watch. It was nine O' clock in the morning. There [¾]
was no sun or promise of / sun, although there was not a cloud in the sky. It [1]
was a clear day. However, / there seemad to be an indescribable darkness [1¼]
over the face of things. That was because the sun was absent / from the sky. [1½]
This face did not worry the man. He was not alarmed by the lack of / sun. [1¾]
It had been days since he had seen the sun. The man looked along the way be // [2]
had come. The Yukon lay of mile wide and hidden under three feet of Ice. On
top of / this ice were as many feet of snow. It was all pure white. North and [2¼]
South, as / far as DP Jack London 64 his eye could see, it was unbroken [2½]
white. The one / thing that relieved the whiteness was a thin dark line that [2¾]
curved from the pine.

Covered is land to the // South. It curved into the north, where it [3]
disappeared behind another pine - covered Island. This / dark line was the trail - [3¼]
the main trail. It led South 500 miles to the chilcott pass, / and salt water, It led [3½]
north 75 miles to Dawson, and still farther on to the north a / thousand mills to [3¾]
Nulato, and finally to St. Michael, on being sea a thousand miles and half // a [4]
thousand more. But all this the distant trail, no sun in the sky, the great cold /, and [4¼]
the strangeness of it all - had no effect on the man. It was not because he / was [4½]
long familiar with it. He was a new comer in the land, and this was his / first [4¾]
winter. The trouble with him was that he was not able to imagine. He was quick
and // ready in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in their [5]

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meaning. Fifty / degrees below zero meant 80 degrees of frost. Such facts to Id [5¼]
him that it was cold and uncomfortable /, and that was all. It did not lead him to [5½]
consider his weaknesses as a creature affected by / temperature. Nor did he [5¾]
think about man’s general weakness, able to live only within narrow limits of
heat // and cold. From there, it did not lead him to thought of heaven and the [6]
meaning of a / man’s life. 50 degrees below zero meant a bite of frost that hurt [6¼]
and that must be guarded against / by the use of mittens, ear coverings, warm [6½]
moccasins, and thicks. 50 degrees below zero was / to him nothing more than [6¾]
50 degrees below zero.

That was a though that never entered his head. // [7]

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