Bihar Lab Technician Exam Pattern, Eligibility

Both posts use the same computer based test format.

The subject and level differ. Laboratory Technician is set on the two-year Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technician curriculum; Laboratory Assistant (Science) on graduate physics, chemistry or mathematics. There's no sectional timing in either.

Both are open to Indian citizens, but reservation is only for permanent residents of Bihar, decided on the permanent address in the online form.

Standard relaxations for both: ten years for persons with disabilities, five for Bihar government servants with three years of continuous regular service, and the length of prior contract service in the same post. Only one can be claimed.

The Laboratory Technician advertisement also keeps eligible anyone who was within the upper age limit at any point between 1 August 2014 and 1 August 2024.

Reserved categories in both: Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Extremely Backward Class, Backward Class, Economically Weaker Section and Women of Backward Classes, plus 35 per cent horizontal reservation for women domiciled in Bihar and 2 per cent for grandchildren of freedom fighters. BC and EBC candidates need a non-creamy-layer certificate issued for the Government of Bihar; for women it must be in the father's name and address.

No interview for either. Merit is out of 100:

Your test percentage is multiplied by 0.75, so 50 per cent in the paper is 37.5 marks. Experience marks go only to those who qualify the test, and only for contract service in the same post, certified on the Appendix-1 format in the advertisement. Service as a medical laboratory technician earns nothing towards Laboratory Assistant (Science), and the reverse. Document verification follows.

Apply online only at btsc.bihar.gov.in, paying by debit card, credit card, internet banking or UPI. The fee is the same for both posts.

Each advertisement is a separate application and fee. If you pay a concessional fee and can't produce the certificate behind it, your candidature is cancelled. Reservation, disability, freedom-fighter descent and experience each have their own column in the form and can't be added later, and the category can't be changed after registration.

BTSC runs both recruitments on requisition from different departments.

Laboratory Technician, Advertisement No. 02/2025

Health Department, Government of Bihar: 2,969 posts in its hospitals and health institutions, including 766 for women, 90 for persons with disabilities and 45 for grandchildren of freedom fighters.

Laboratory Assistant (Science), Advertisement No. 12/2026

Science, Technology and Technical Education Department, on a requisition of 26 December 2024, for 164 posts.

Seven are for persons with disabilities (two each for blindness and low vision, deafness and hard of hearing, and locomotor disability; one for autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness or multiple disability) and three for grandchildren of freedom fighters, all for domiciles of Bihar.

BTSC has no annual calendar. It advertises a post when the requisition arrives, so these two ran more than a year apart.

Watch the Recruitments listing, which carries every advertisement with its dates.

Minimum qualifying marks in the written test are Bihar-wide, set by state resolutions of 16 July 2007 and 22 January 2021, and the same for both posts:

Below your category's minimum, experience doesn't help.

No closing marks have been published for either laboratory post yet. BTSC prints them out of the combined 100 with each result on its result page. For comparison, its 2025 health recruitments closed at 30.5625 for Pharmacist, 32.8125 for Operation Theatre Assistant and 41.6250 for X-Ray Technician.

1. Settle which post you mean. Medical laboratory qualification: Laboratory Technician. Science degree: Laboratory Assistant (Science). Different syllabus, pay and vacancies.
2. Read that post's own syllabus on the syllabus page, filed under the post's name. BTSC has more than a dozen laboratory-related syllabi, so match the name exactly.
3. Count your experience marks. Up to 25 of the 100 come from contract service in the same post, five a year with part-years prorated. Several years banked means you need a lower test score for the same rank.
4. Answer everything. A guess is worth a quarter of a mark on average, and there's no sectional timing.
5. Get the certificates right: permanent residence for reservation, and the Bihar non-creamy-layer certificate for BC and EBC.

• Bihar Technical Service Commission
• Recruitments, with every advertisement and its dates
• Laboratory Technician, Advertisement 02/2025 (PDF, Hindi)
• Laboratory Assistant (Science), Advertisement 12/2026 (PDF, Hindi)
• Syllabus for each post
• Important notices, including corrigenda and results
• Admit card and call letter
• Result
• Objection portal

Is there a Bihar Lab Technician examination?

Not under that name. The recruitment that fits is Advertisement No. 02/2025, Laboratory Technician in the Health Department.

What is the difference between Laboratory Technician and Laboratory Assistant?

Laboratory Technician is a Health Department post at Pay Level 5 needing a medical laboratory diploma or B.M.L.T. Laboratory Assistant (Science) is a technical education post at Pay Level 6 needing a degree in Physics, Chemistry or Mathematics.

Which one has more posts?

Laboratory Technician: 2,969 against 164.

Can one application cover both?

No. Each advertisement is a separate application with its own fee.

Does my experience count for either post?

Only contract service in the same post counts, for up to 25 marks.

Is there an interview?

No. A 75-mark test, up to 25 for experience, then document verification.