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FCI Assistant Grade III (General) 2027

The Food Corporation of India recruits Assistant Grade III staff for its operational and administrative work. The Phase I examination covers English Language, Numerical Aptitude and Reasoning Ability.

Previous papers
2
Full mocks
28
Sectionals
43

The Food Corporation of India recruits Assistant Grade III staff in several streams. This page concerns the recruitment-test resources, not a currently confirmed application cycle.

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Food Corporation of India (FCI)
FCI official site (opens on the official site)

Who can apply

For AG-III (General), the post this site models, FCI requires a graduate degree in any discipline and proficiency in computers. The maximum age is 27, according to FCI's latest Category III advertisement (No. 01/2022). AG-III (Technical) accepts science, agriculture and food-technology degrees instead.

  • AG-III (General) and AG-III (Depot): graduate degree in any discipline from a recognised university, with proficiency in computers
  • AG-III (Technical): B.Sc Agriculture; or a B.Sc with Botany, Zoology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Microbiology or Food Science; or a B.Tech/B.E. in Food Science, Food Science and Technology, Agricultural Engineering or Biotechnology; plus proficiency in computers
  • Maximum age 27 for all AG-III streams in the 2022 advertisement, reckoned as on 01.08.2022
  • Age relaxation: 5 years for SC/ST, 3 years for OBC and 10 years for PwBD (13 years for PwBD-OBC, 15 years for PwBD-SC/ST)
  • Each candidate may apply in one zone and for one post code only
  • Age cut-off date, vacancies and relaxations are set per advertisement, so check the next notification when it is issued

A summary. Confirm the details in the current notice.

Source: FCI Advt. No. 01/2022 (Category III) ↗. Checked 2026-09-26.

Based on past papers, not an official scheme. Confirm in the current notice.

Every section is compulsory, with no choice between them, and the paper is timed at 90 minutes.

Sections, questions and marks
Section Questions Marks Status
English Language 34 34 Compulsory
Numerical Aptitude 33 33 Compulsory
Reasoning Ability 33 33 Compulsory
Paper total — 100

English Language, Numerical Aptitude and Reasoning Ability are all compulsory — there is no optional section to choose.

Marking scheme

+1 for a correct answer, −0.25 for a wrong answer. An unanswered question scores zero. Our mocks for this exam are scored the same way.

Source: FCI Advt 01/2022 (Category III) ↗

Assistant Grade-III (Technical) and (Depot) are shown as the posts most relevant to food technologists. The South Zone figures come from FCI's own Phase II cut-off sheet, issued via IBPS: the 'Select List' cut-off applied on total marks, for the Category-III 2022 recruitment (Phase II held 05 Mar 2023). The sheet is no longer on FCI's offline recruitment site, so the link is to a copy of the signed sheet hosted by SSCAdda. The North Zone Depot figures are as reported by Bankersadda.

Category-wise cut-off marks by year
Year Stage UR OBC EWS SC ST PwBD (c) PwBD (a) PwBD (b) PwBD (d&e) Source
2023 Phase II select-list cut-off, South Zone, AG-III (Technical) (total out of 240) 117.00 105.25 103.75 92.00 85.50 77.25 — — — Official, FCI Category III Phase II cut-off sheet (South Zone), copy hosted by SSCAdda ↗
2023 Phase II select-list cut-off, South Zone, AG-III (Depot) (total out of 120) 67.25 65.25 60.75 56.00 54.75 52.50 62.75 41.50 8.25 Official, FCI Category III Phase II cut-off sheet (South Zone), copy hosted by SSCAdda ↗
2023 Phase II final cut-off, North Zone, AG-III (Depot) (out of 120, the official Phase II Depot scale) 68.25 63.00 64.75 54.00 54.25 — — — — Reported, Bankersadda ↗

Free PDFs and recommended books for FCI Assistant. How we choose

Free PDFs

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Food chemistry

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Manual of Methods of Analysis of Foods — Oils and Fats

Official methods for acid, iodine and saponification values and related tests.

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Core food technology

Textbook of Food Science and Technology (ICAR)

Indian food-science baseline for processing, preservation, chemistry.

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Aptitude and general studies

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Aptitude

Quantitative Aptitude by R. S. Aggarwal

Useful for arithmetic, reasoning-adjacent quantitative practice in recruitment papers.

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General studies

Lucent General Knowledge

Compact static GK reference for state FSO, FCI.

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Coaching (free lectures)

Swa Education

Broad free FSO coverage — unit-wise MP FSO classes, Rajasthan, Haryana.

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