Haryana Assistant District Attorney

Last Updated: 11.08.2025

Introduction 

The Examination for the post of Haryana Assistant District Attorney shall be conducted by the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC).

Eligibility Criteria

• Educational Qualification: A candidate must have a degree in law (Professional) or integrated law course from a university established by law in India and must be enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council. 
• Age Limit: The minimum age is 21 years, and the maximum age allowed for the exam is 42 years.  

Screening Test 

• Total MCQs: 100  
• Total Marks: 100  
• Time duration of the exam: 02 hours  
• All questions carry equal marks. 
• Each question will have five options. The fifth option will be meant for a situation where a candidate intends to leave the question un-attempted.  
• One-fourth mark will be deducted lor each wrong answer.  
• In case, a candidate neither attempts a question nor darkens the fifth option/bubble, then One-fourth mark will be deducted for each such question.  
• The question paper will be in English and Hindi.  
• A candidate will have to secure a minimum of 25% marks to clear the screening test.  
• Candidates four times the number of advertised posts alongwith bracketed candidates, if any. will be called for the Subject Knowledge test, provided that they have secured the minimum cutoff marks of 25%.  
• The marks obtained by the candidates in the screening test will not be counted for final selection because it is meant only for short-listing of category-wise candidates. 

Screening Test Syllabus 

• General Science  
• Current Events of National and lnternational Importance  
• History of India  
• Indian and World Geography  
• lndian Culture, Indian Polity and lndian Economy  
• General Mental Ability (Reasoning and Analytical Abilities)  
• Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, order of magnitude etc. Class X level). Data interpretation (charts, graphs. tables. data sufficiency etc. Class X level)  
• Haryana GK - History, Geography, Polity, Economy, Culture etc. 

Subjective Test Syllabus 

• Time duration of exam: 03 hours  
• Totat Marks: 150  
• The question paper will be in English and Hindi.  
• Paper will be subjective type. 
• No candidate will be called for the interview/viva-voce unless she/he secures a minimum of 35% marks in the Subject Knowledge Test.  
• The numbers of the candidates called for interview will be two times, alongwith bracketed candidates, if any, of the number of advertised posts provided that they have secured the minimum cut-off marks of 35%. 
• The weight-age of the Subject Knowledge test will be 87.5%. 

Interview 

• After qualifying in both Screening Test and Subjective Test, the commission will call you for the final round of examination, i.e., the Personal Interview round. 
• The weightage of the interview will be 12.5%. 
• The final list will be prepared by adding marks of the second stage examination and the interview.