RSMSSB Lab Technician Syllabus, Exam Pattern, Eligibility

2020 Paramedical cadre: no paper

Clauses 12 and 13 of the 2020 advertisement set the basis of selection. No written test, interview or skill test.

A year means 365 days of similar work under the Government of Rajasthan, the National Rural Health Mission, a Medicare Relief Society, the Chief Minister's BPL Jeevan Raksha Kosh, the AIDS Control Society, the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Medical College Jhalawar, the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project or the State Health and Family Welfare Institute. It must be certified on the advertisement's fifteen-row form, one form per spell, designation, rate of pay and place of posting.

2025 contractual: paper XQ439

Blanks cost as much as wrong answers

The advertisement only mentions minus 1 for a wrong answer. The Board's merit order of 20 November 2025 prints the full formula:

Total Marks = SUM of [(RQ × KF) − (WQ × 1)] − (Maximum Marks × Not Attempted Questions) / (Total Number of Questions × 3), where KF = (Maximum Marks / Total Questions) × (Total Questions / Valid Questions).

No question was deleted, so KF was exactly 3. In plain terms: plus 3 for right, minus 1 for wrong, minus 1 for blank. A guess on four options averages out to zero (3 × 0.25 − 1 × 0.75); a blank is a certain minus one.

Worse, leaving more than 10 per cent (over 15 of 150) unmarked disqualifies you. 107 candidates were removed from this paper for it.

The 2020 recruitment had no paper and no syllabus. This is the XQ439 syllabus from Advertisement No. 01/2025.

Part A: General Knowledge, General Science and Current Affairs (45 marks)

1. History of India.
2. Indian National Movement, with the important events in Rajasthan.
3. India and Rajasthan: geography, physical, social and economic.
4. India and Rajasthan: state and governance, Constitution, political system, panchayati raj.
5. Biodiversity, climate change, human (economic and social) development and social problems.
6. Current events in India, Rajasthan and the world.
7. General Science at 10th standard.

Part B: General English and General Hindi (45 marks)

English: tenses; jumbled sentences; direct and indirect narration; modals; articles and determiners; comprehension with blanks; homonyms and homophones; clauses; synonyms and antonyms; pairs of words; idioms and phrases; prepositions; active and passive voice.

Hindi: sandhi and sandhi viched; prefixes and suffixes; compound words; paired-word meanings; synonyms and antonyms; spelling and sentence correction; one word for a phrase; Hindi equivalents of English administrative terms; idioms and proverbs.

Part C: Knowledge of Computers (45 marks)

Basic applications and components; fundamentals; open source; input and output devices; operating system; MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, PDF, internet and e-mail; viruses and anti-virus; hardware and software, CPU, peripherals, storage media, firmware and humanware; IT in governance, and IT acts and regulations.

Part D: National Health Programs (45 marks)

The National Health Mission and its programmes (reproductive and child health, communicable and non-communicable disease control); Ayushman Bharat and related programmes.

Part E: Professional (270 marks, 90 questions)

1. Anatomy and Physiology

Cells; tissues (epithelial, muscular, connective including cartilage and bone) and necrosis; blood; circulatory, digestive, respiratory, nervous, endocrine and urinary systems; ear, nose, tongue and skin; skeletal, muscular and reproductive systems.

2. Hematology and blood banking

Clinical pathology and quality control: lab safety; internal and external quality control; urine collection, composition, preservation and gross, chemical and microscopic examination; CSF and other body fluids; semen analysis; biomedical waste norms and discarding infected blood.

Hematology: instruments and glassware and their washing; stains, buffers and solutions; blood collection, anticoagulants, vacutainer types; RBC, WBC and absolute eosinophil counts; platelet and reticulocyte counts; haemoglobin estimation methods and their merits; PCV; blood indices; ESR; peripheral smear preparation and staining; normal and abnormal red cell and leucocyte morphology; differential count; bone marrow sites and needles; osmotic fragility; foetal haemoglobin; G6PD; sickling test; automation basics.

Blood banking: donor screening and selection; collection and storage; ABO, RH and other systems, A sub-groups, Bombay group, anti AB and anti H; ABO slide and tube tests, reverse grouping, cell and serum discrepancies, errors, rouleaux; RH grouping, false results, the Du system; cross matching with saline, albumin, Coombs and enzymes; direct and indirect Coombs test; component preparation and storage; gel techniques.

Clinical pathology: complete urine exam; semen; CSF and body fluids; cell counts; haemoglobin estimation and electrophoresis; PCV, ESR and indices; LE cell and cold agglutination tests; smears; differential count; osmotic fragility; sickling; foetal haemoglobin; G6PD; grouping and cross matching; blood bank organisation and components; transfusion reactions.

3. Environmental studies

Biotic and abiotic environment; effects of pollution; control strategies; acts and regulations; water, air and land pollution.

4. Bio-medical waste management

Types, collection, treatment and safe disposal.

There's no unit on microbiology, biochemistry, histopathology or parasitology, though the diploma teaches all four.

Qualification

So a Maths student qualified in 2020 but not in 2025, while the 2025 notice added Blood Bank Technology.

Registration. After Manju v. State (Writ Petition 13922/2017), the 2020 notice let you apply unregistered if you had applied to the Council by the closing date, with the certificate due at verification. The 2025 notice is stricter: registration must be held by the last date, or selection is cancelled.

Age

Category relaxations are the same in both and don't add up; you take the largest:

• General and EWS women: 5 years.
• Rajasthan SC, ST, OBC and MBC men: 5 years; women of those categories: 10 years.
• Ex-servicemen: upper limit 50 in 2020 under the Rajasthan Civil Services (Absorption of Ex-servicemen) Rules, 1988; 10 years in 2025, subject to the same ceiling.
• Widows and divorced women: no upper limit below retirement age, with a death certificate or divorce decree.
• PwBD (2025): 5 years beyond what the service rules allow.

Relaxation applies only where a post is actually reserved for that category.

Reservation

Reservation is for Rajasthan residents only. A reserved-category candidate from another state counts as General, pays the General fee and competes on the General line.

Women's reservation in 2020 was 30 per cent, horizontal; within it, 8 per cent for widows and 2 per cent for divorced women, each passing to the other and then to other women of the category if unfilled. MBC is 5 per cent, EWS 10 per cent, ex-servicemen 12.5 per cent and outstanding sportspersons 2 per cent.

A married OBC or MBC woman needs a non creamy layer certificate on her father's name, residence and income. One on her husband's isn't accepted.

Scheduled area posts

Only for bona fide residents of the scheduled area: resident before 1 January 1970, or born after with parents who were, or married into such a family. Scheduled area candidates can also apply for non scheduled posts, not the reverse.

Disability and other conditions

• A reserved disability post needs a permanent certificate of 40 per cent or more. In 2020 only the medical board at Sawai Man Singh Hospital, Jaipur counted.
• Marriage registration is mandatory (circular of 22 May 2006).
• No more than one living spouse; no dowry.
• No more than two children counting those born on or after 1 June 2002, with the advertisement's exceptions.
• A health certificate from the Chief Medical and Health Officer or a district medical jurist, and character certificates (one from your last institution, two from non-relatives) under six months old.

2020 Paramedical cadre

1. Online application through e-Mitra, a Common Service Centre or your own SSO ID.
2. Merit list on academic marks plus experience bonus, category by category.
3. Document verification: qualifications, experience, Council registration, police verification, character and health certificates.
4. Recommendation to Medical and Health Services, Rajasthan.

One certified year of experience is worth 10 marks, against a General cut-off of 48.3329.

2025 contractual

1. One Time Registration through SSO.
2. Online application, including the Preference Section ranking NHM and RajMES.
3. Written exam, XQ439, 11 June 2025.
4. Provisional answer key, 14 August 2025, with objections.
5. Merit list, 20 November 2025, followed by an online scrutiny form for document verification.
6. Final answer key, 27 November 2025.
7. Document verification by the Rajasthan Medical Education Society for both cadres.
8. Final result and cut-offs, 29 January 2026; selected lists 31 January 2026.

Preference decides the post

Six pairs of cadres in the 2025 notice shared one paper each. You ranked the two employers when applying, and you couldn't change it afterwards. Posts go by merit, then preference. NHM closed above RajMES in every category except ST (162 for both): see the cut-off tables. A General candidate on 228 who put NHM first missed it and got RajMES.

What the 2025 selection produced

For 55 scheduled area posts only 16 candidates qualified, and 11 were selected, leaving 44 posts empty. A provisional selection becomes an appointment only if the department confirms eligibility, and any recommendation is withdrawn if forged documents come to light.

2020 Paramedical cadre

Pay Matrix Level L-8 (7th Pay Commission), with a fixed monthly amount during probation as the rules provide. The advertisement gives no other pay figure. The contributory pension scheme applies.

2025 contractual

The advertisement gives no monthly pay figure. Figures circulating online can't be checked against anything the Board published; ask the NHM or RajMES. The terms it does state:

• Wholly contractual, under the Contractual Hiring to Civil Posts Rules, 2022.
• One year, or the extended or project period.
• Ends automatically when the contract ends.
• Posts and terms can be changed, cut or withdrawn at any time, and the advertisement cancelled without reason.
• Pension as the 2022 Rules provide.

2020

Online only, via e-Mitra, a Common Service Centre or SSO, 18 June to 2 July 2020, 23:59: fifteen days, cut short because of the pandemic.

No refunds. e-Mitra charged Rs 30 (Rs 20 for the form, Rs 10 for the fee). A failed payment meant no application.

2025

Through the Board's One Time Registration (circular of 19 April 2023) on SSO Rajasthan. You pay once for all later Board exams.

The category, disability status and home state you enter at registration are what every application offers you, and you can't edit them on the form. Outside Rajasthan, you pay the General fee.

Applications ran 18 February to 19 March 2025, 23:59. For seven days after closing you could correct the form for Rs 300: photo, signature and qualification directly; name, father's name, date of birth and gender via Aadhaar or Jan Aadhaar in the registration; category, disability and home state in the registration first. You could also withdraw in those seven days if you didn't hold the qualification.

Unfair means

Under the Rajasthan Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Act, 2022 and the Board's 2016 Regulations: at least three years and Rs 1,00,000 for using unfair means; five to ten years and at least Rs 10,00,000 for leaks or impersonation rackets; and a two-year bar from public exams.

The Board conducts and recommends. The employer checks eligibility, appoints and posts.

The whole 2025 notice

Paired cadres sharing a paper: Nurse and Nurse Grade-II; Medical Lab Technician and Lab Technician; Social Worker and Medical Social Worker; Audiologist and Audiologist or Speech Therapist; Bio Medical Engineer (both); Physiotherapist Assistant and Physiotherapist.

The 2020 notice

The 2020 recruitment had no exam and no centres. The only in-person step was document verification, plus a medical board at Sawai Man Singh Hospital, Jaipur for disability-quota candidates.

For 2025, the notice set an exam window of 2 to 13 June 2025 and named no cities. XQ439 was on 11 June 2025, inside Rajasthan. Your centre is printed only on the admit card.

If you get an admit card and miss two Board exams in a financial year, you're blocked from the next one until you pay Rs 750 (one missed) or Rs 1,500 (two). Withdrawing before the closing date costs nothing.

2020 Paramedical cadre

2025 contractual, XQ439

The final key came a week after the merit list. The Board's orders also disagree on when the 2025 notice was amended: the merit order lists 17 February, 18 March, 1 April, 10 November and 12 November 2025; the final orders list 17 October and 12 November 2025. Either way, NHM lab posts went from 414 to 464 and RajMES stayed at 321.

No new permanent Lab Technician recruitment had been advertised as at 12 September 2026. Watch the Board's advertisements page.

The 2020 recruitment issued no admit card; keep the application receipt with its Application ID.

For 2025, download the admit card from the Board's website with your SSO ID. Nothing is posted. Release is announced in newspapers and on the site, and may be sent to your registered mobile and email. Bring the admit card and an original government photo ID. Being admitted is provisional and says nothing about eligibility.

2020: office orders, not a result

The Board selected batches as verification cleared them, listing candidates by application number.

Order 193 came after Writ Petition 6787/2020 was withdrawn, and kept order 873's cut-offs. Final tally: 872 of 1,014 non scheduled and 32 of 105 scheduled, 904 of 1,119, with 215 unfilled, 73 of them scheduled area.

Assistant Radiographer ran separately to a revised result on 18 December 2023: 699 and 16 already recommended against 959 and 99, an order of 6 December 2023 cancelled, and 61 more non scheduled selections. Cut-offs: General 40.5358, General women 38.41, OBC 40.5358.

Careful with the results index: one 3 November 2021 order filed alongside these is for Investigator (Agriculture) 2019, with cut-offs of 114.2361 and 109.375 on a different paper. The Lab Technician order is 873.

2025: merit list

The merit order of 20 November 2025 lists every qualified candidate with marks to four decimals, roll number, names, category and area.

The top mark was 342 of 450 (76 per cent). Reserved candidates who clear the open line take unreserved posts, so General is the overall merit line. Results of candidates who applied offline remain subject to Writ Petition 6658/2025 in the High Court.

2020 Paramedical cadre, non scheduled area (out of 100)

From office order 873 of 3 November 2021, unchanged by orders 920 and 193.

With no experience, 48.3329 needs an average of about 69 per cent across Senior Secondary and diploma; with one year's bonus, about 55 per cent. "Not available" for ST, MBC and Sahariya means those posts were filled in earlier orders.

2025 Contractual Medical Lab Technician, NHM (out of 450)

Outstanding sportsperson 180; scheduled area 158. Widow, divorced, ex-serviceman and disability lines were not available or had no roster post.

2025 Contractual Lab Technician, RajMES (out of 450)

Locomotor disability or cerebral palsy 200; scheduled area General 210.

Lines at exactly 180, the 40 per cent floor, mean the last person selected was on the floor. ST at 162 and NHM scheduled area at 158 are below it, just above the 157.5 SC/ST minimum. Source orders: NHM and RajMES, 29 January 2026.

2020-type recruitment (no exam)

• Register with the Rajasthan Para Medical Council in time.
• Get every spell of experience certified on the advertisement's form. Under 365 days counts for nothing, so eleven months scores the same as none.

2025-type contractual paper

• Answer all 150. A blank costs as much as a wrong answer, and more than 15 blanks disqualifies you.
• Put most of your time into Part E, 270 of 450 marks, and within it hematology, blood banking and clinical pathology. Revise the Board's list, not your whole diploma.
• Don't skip Part D. It's 45 marks on a two-line syllabus: NHM programmes and Ayushman Bharat.
• Part A leans on Rajasthan: four of its seven items name the state. General Science stops at 10th standard.
• Practise on the Board's own papers (see sample papers).

Paperwork

• Get the One Time Registration right; it fixes your category on every form.
• Fix errors within the seven-day window.
• Married OBC or MBC women: get the non creamy layer certificate on your father's details.
• Fill the Preference Section deliberately. In 2025 it moved the General line by 11 marks.
• Don't skip an exam you hold an admit card for.

The 2020 recruitment had no paper, so there are no past papers for it.

For XQ439, the Board published the final answer key (27 November 2025, all 150 answers) and the provisional key (14 August 2025). Keys for the other cadres of the same notice, built to the same plan with the same four general parts, are on the answer keys page, for example Contractual Pharma Assistant (738SE) and Compounder Ayurved (820BJ). The merit order of 20 November 2025 shows every qualified mark: 342 at the top, 158 at the bottom, 1,296 names for 730 posts.

• Rajasthan Staff Selection Board
• Advertisements
• Exam scheme and syllabus
• Answer keys
• Results
• SSO Rajasthan, for registration, applications and admit cards
• Advertisement No. 01/2025
• 2025 merit list, 20 November 2025
• XQ439 final answer key
• Order 873, 2020 cut-offs
• Order 920, 2020 selected list
• About the Board

Is RSMSSB Lab Technician one exam?

No. The 2020 Paramedical cadre post is permanent and had no exam. The 2025 contractual posts are one-year contracts filled on a 150-question paper.

How was the 2020 merit list made?

70 per cent of the average of your Senior Secondary and diploma percentages, plus up to 30 for experience (10 a year). Maximum 100.

What was the 2020 cut-off?

General 48.3329 of 100, from order 873.

What's the 2025 paper like?

150 questions, 150 minutes, 450 marks. Plus 3 right, minus 1 wrong, minus 1 blank. Qualifying 180, or 157.5 for SC and ST.

What if I leave a lot blank?

More than 15 blanks disqualifies you. 107 candidates were removed for it.

What were the 2025 General cut-offs?

234 for NHM and 223 for RajMES, out of 450.

What's the age limit?

21 to 40 on 1 January 2026 for the 2025 posts; 18 to 40 on 1 January 2021, plus 3 years for everyone, in 2020.

Do I get reservation if I'm SC from another state?

No. You count as General.

Is the 2025 result final?

Mostly. Six were selected provisionally, and results of offline applicants remain subject to Writ Petition 6658/2025.