Typing test · Steno dictation
Steno dictation practice (SSC Stenographer)
Listen to a dictation at 80 or 100 words per minute, take it down in shorthand, then type it out. You get your mistakes word by word. Your device's own voice reads the passage; nothing is recorded and nothing you type leaves this browser.
160 words at 80 w.p.m.; then 10 minutes to type it (SSC's English time, scaled to this length).
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What SSC's skill test asks
- One dictation of 10 minutes in English or Hindi: 100 w.p.m. for Stenographer Grade 'C', 80 w.p.m. for Grade 'D'. It is transcribed on a computer.
- Transcription time: Grade 'D' 50 minutes (English) or 65 minutes (Hindi); Grade 'C' 40 minutes (English) or 55 minutes (Hindi). Candidates eligible for a scribe get more time (see the notice).
- The skill test is qualifying; SSC fixes category-wise qualifying standards for each post.
Source: SSC, Notice of Stenographer Grade 'C' and 'D' Examination, 2026 ↗ (paras 15.1 and 19.4), read 26 October 2026.
How this practice counts mistakes
A word left out, an extra word or a wrong word is a full mistake; a spelling slip, a wrong capital letter or punctuation stuck to a word is a half mistake. Errors % = (full + half ÷ 2) ÷ words dictated × 100. This is Shishya's count in the way steno tests generally count — not SSC's own marking. SSC publishes its evaluation rules separately; we could not open that page when we built this, so no pass mark is shown here.
English only for now. Passages: Rabindranath Tagore, "Nationalism (1917), lecture Nationalism in India" — a public-domain text, from Project Gutenberg ↗. Lectures published in 1917, so some words and spellings are old-fashioned.