Court Typing Test (Supreme Court JCA)
Practise for court clerk and assistant typing tests with the Supreme Court Junior Court Assistant standard: 10 minutes of English at 35 words a minute, with no more than 3% of the words wrong.
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- Updated October 2026
1Choose your test
2Type the passage
3Your result
Typing tests for court jobs
Clerk, assistant and stenographer posts in courts almost always include a typing test, because much of the work is drafting and copying orders, notices and records. The rules differ between courts, but they share the same idea: copy a passage accurately within a fixed time.
This page is set to the standard the Supreme Court of India published for its Junior Court Assistant post, because it is stated clearly in an official advertisement. The Supreme Court advertisement No. F.6/2025-SC (RC) of 4 February 2025 asks for a minimum speed of 35 words a minute in English typing on a computer and describes the typing test like this:
| Point | Rule |
|---|---|
| Language | English, on a computer |
| Time | 10 minutes |
| Minimum speed | 35 words a minute |
| Mistakes | up to 3% of the total words to be typed |
| Stage | after the objective written test and computer knowledge test; candidates who qualify also take a descriptive test and an interview |
Why 3% is strict
SSC's typing tests allowed 7% or 10% mistakes in CHSL 2025. The Supreme Court's limit of 3% leaves much less room. On a 350-word passage it means about 10 mistakes, and every slip, even a missing comma or a wrong capital, uses up part of that allowance. Speed alone will not get you through. Court passages can also contain legal words, names, dates and section numbers that must be copied exactly.
How the practice test checks you
- The timer is fixed at 10 minutes and starts with your first key.
- Your gross speed is the characters you typed divided by 5, divided by the minutes: the usual rule that one word equals five key depressions.
- Mistakes are counted with SSC's published evaluation rules, because the Supreme Court advertisement does not describe its own method: full mistakes for missed, wrong, extra or misspelt words, half mistakes for spacing, capitals, punctuation and swapped words.
- The result compares your speed with 35 words a minute and your mistakes with 3% of the passage's words, and shows which words were wrong.
Other courts
High Courts and district courts publish their own rules, which can differ in time, speed, language (English, Hindi or both) and the way mistakes are counted. We have not added them as separate modes because they change from one recruitment to the next. Use Practice mode with the time from your notice, and for a Hindi test use the Hindi typing test.
Tips for court typing tests
- Slow down a little from your best speed. With a 3% limit, accuracy matters more than the last few words a minute.
- Practise copying capital letters, full stops in abbreviations and numbers exactly as printed.
- Take a few tests with Backspace off to find out how accurate you really are.
- Read the passage once before you start, so names and long words do not surprise you.
Other exam typing tests
Need more options? Open the full Typing Test for SSC, CPCT & Court Exams.
Frequently asked questions
What is the typing speed for Supreme Court Junior Court Assistant?
The Supreme Court's advertisement of 4 February 2025 asks for a minimum of 35 words a minute in English typing on a computer, tested over 10 minutes, with mistakes allowed up to 3% of the total words to be typed.
How many mistakes is 3%?
It depends on the passage length. For a passage of 350 words, 3% is about 10 mistakes. The tool shows the exact number for the passage you choose and checks your result against it.
Do High Courts and district courts use the same rule?
Not always. Each High Court and district court sets its own typing speed, time, language and mistake rule in its recruitment notice, so read the notice for your post. You can match its time in Practice mode.
How does the tool count mistakes?
It lines up your words with the passage and counts missed, wrong, extra and misspelt words as full mistakes, and spacing, capital-letter, punctuation and swapped-word slips as half mistakes, following SSC's published guidelines. The Supreme Court advertisement does not explain its own counting method.