Delhi High Court Court Attendant: DSSSB Post Code 801/25, Pattern, Result

The Delhi High Court’s Level 3 recruitment is not one it runs itself. Its 334 Level 3 posts — Court Attendant and four allied posts — were advertised by the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board as post code 801/25 in Advertisement 03/2025. DSSSB holds the written test; the court interviews the shortlist. Candidates call it the Delhi High Court peon or Group C exam. This guide gives the vacancy break-up, the Tier-I pattern and marking, how the interview shortlist works, the 2017 precedent when the court ran the test itself, and where things stand on the result.

DSSSB Advertisement 03/2025 (14.08.2025).

Note the shape: OBC has the most posts (120) and unreserved only 86, with EWS unusually high at 71. That reflects the court’s own backlog roster, not a general rule. It also means that for OBC candidates with a Delhi OBC certificate this is a relatively open recruitment — and that OBC candidates from other states, who must apply as General, compete in the UR pool — just 86 seats, open to everyone on merit.

Two things about this paper are easy to miss. First, 150 minutes for 100 questions is generous — 90 seconds a question — so accuracy, not speed, separates candidates; with −0.25 per wrong answer, if each question has four options (the advertisement does not say), a blind guess is worth only +0.06 marks on average (our arithmetic: ¼ × 1 − ¾ × 0.25), while eliminating one option lifts that to +0.17. Second, clearing 50 or 45 only makes you eligible. The court calls up to five times the vacancies in each category to its interview, so the real cut-off is set by how many candidates scored higher, and for UR with 86 seats that is the top 430 or so.

A worked example shows how much the interview can move. Merit is out of 115: Tier-I 100 plus interview 15, with no minimum in the interview. Suppose candidate A scores 72 in Tier-I and 6 in the interview (78 in all) and candidate B scores 68 and 13 (81). B finishes ahead despite a four-mark deficit on paper — our illustration, not data from any result. With the interview worth 15 marks and scored by the court itself, a neat appearance, a clear account of why you want the job and any skill the advertisement prefers (cooking, carpentry, electrical work, driving) are worth preparing for as seriously as the written test.

Because there is no published cut-off yet for 801/25, any “DSSSB Court Attendant cut-off” you see for this cycle is an estimate. The one official earlier data point is the court’s own 2017 Court Attendant/Room Attendant exam, which it ran itself for 63 Court Attendant and 5 Room Attendant posts, with no General vacancy.

The 2017 booklet — published among the court’s previous papers — is bilingual and gives three options per question, with an English section of 25 questions. DSSSB runs its own CBT (the advertisement does not state the number of options), so use it for the kind of question the court’s examiners chose, not for timing. The advertisement names only the four subjects and their marks; it publishes no topic list. The closest official guide to the English and General Knowledge level is the JJA prelim syllabus, which lists topics such as synonyms, idioms, prepositions, spot the error, the Constitution, the Indian judiciary and everyday science — pitched one step below, the same ground serves the attendant paper.

Advertisement 04/2025 is the second Class 10-level recruitment DSSSB ran for the Delhi High Court in the same season: 8 Chauffeur posts (post code 53/25) and 12 Despatch Rider-cum-Process Server posts (54/25), both at Level 5 — two levels above Court Attendant. It is further along than 801/25: the skill tests and interviews are done and chauffeur document verification is fixed for 6 October 2026. Its pattern differs from the attendant paper in three ways worth knowing if you are deciding which to target next time — a shorter paper worth 2 marks a question, a heavier −0.5 penalty, and practical driving or riding tests that must each be passed.