What does the Lok Sewa Aayog typing test involve?
If you are preparing for a Lok Sewa Aayog exam with a computer-skills component, typing is part of it - but exactly how much, on which keyboard and to what standard depends on the post and the advertisement you are applying under. Here is what stays the same across most of them, and where to find what does not.
What does the computer skills test actually check?
For a number of Lok Sewa Aayog posts - Kharidar, Nayab Subba and Section Officer among them, alongside several technical services - the practical part of the exam includes a computer skills component, and typing Nepali text, English text, or both is usually part of it, sitting alongside tasks in office software such as word processing and spreadsheets. Exactly which posts include a typing component, and what sits beside it, is set out post by post rather than once for the whole commission.
Where do you find the real requirements?
How fast you need to type, what keyboard layout is accepted, how many marks it carries and how long you get are not fixed once for every exam - they are set in the syllabus attached to the specific advertisement and post you are applying under, and they can change from one advertisement to the next. Treat that syllabus, published by the commission alongside your advertisement, as the only source worth trusting for those numbers - not this page, and not any other typing-practice site quoting a figure it read somewhere else. If you cannot find it, look for the syllabus document linked from your own advertisement before assuming anything about the test.
Which keyboard should you practise on?
Traditional Unicode. It is the standard way to type Nepali as real Unicode text, it is what a government computer is set up with, and it is the layout that syllabuses naming one by name tend to point to. Preeti still turns up in older material and on older machines, but it produces English letters wearing a Nepali-looking font rather than real Nepali text (see the Preeti-versus-Unicode guide for why that matters), and discovering on exam day that you only know one layout is exactly the wrong moment to discover it. Practise Traditional Unicode from the start.
How should you actually prepare?
Accuracy first: on a scored typing test, a wrong word typically costs more than a correct one gains, so typing a little slower and getting it right beats racing ahead and hoping to fix it later - there usually is no later. A steady pace over a fast burst: a test rewards a rate you can hold for the whole passage, not a quick start that falls apart by the end. And practise on the keyboard you will actually sit at - Traditional Unicode - so your fingers already know it before the exam does.