RSSB Lab Technician Syllabus 2026: Subject-wise Topics Guide

The RSSB Lab Technician syllabus covers one objective paper of 450 marks, and more than half of it comes from medical laboratory technology. The Rajasthan Staff Selection Board (RSSB, earlier RSMSSB) published a post-wise syllabus inside Advertisement No. 01/2025, the combined NHM and RajMES contractual recruitment that included Medical Lab Technician and Lab Technician posts.

This page turns that official syllabus into a working checklist. You get the topic list for every part, where to start in each, what other sites get wrong, and a phased plan to cover it before the next notification.

Table of Contents

Syllabus at a Glance

The paper has 150 questions of 3 marks each, to be finished in 2 hours 30 minutes. The RSSB Lab Technician exam pattern page covers the marking rules.

Key Changes to Know

• Five-part paper: The 2025 cycle used a single 450-mark paper split into five parts, with 270 marks for professional subjects. Pages built on older recruitments may show a different structure.

• Common syllabus for two posts: Contractual Medical Lab Technician (NHM) and Contractual Lab Technician (RajMES) shared one syllabus and one exam.

• Not the Lab Assistant syllabus: RSSB Lab Assistant is a separate exam with its own papers. Do not prepare from its syllabus.

• National health programmes added: A 45-mark part on NHM programmes and Ayushman Bharat sits alongside general knowledge, languages and computers.

Older pages may still show the 2020 recruitment or the Lab Assistant structure, so follow the official advertisement.

Part A: General Knowledge, General Science and Current Affairs

Rajasthan-specific questions appear in almost every theme here, so build state notes first and add national topics after.

Part B: General English and General Hindi

General English

• Grammar: Tenses, modals, articles and determiners, uses of prepositions, active and passive voice, narration (direct and indirect).

• Sentence work: Rearranging jumbled sentences, clauses, comprehension with blanks to be filled with phrases and pronouns.

• Vocabulary: Synonyms and antonyms, homonyms and homophones, pairs of words, idioms and phrases.

General Hindi

• Word formation: Sandhi and sandhi-vichchhed, upsarg and pratyay, samas and samas-vigrah.

• Vocabulary: Shabd yugm, paryayvachi and vilom shabd, one word for a phrase, Hindi equivalents of administrative English terms.

• Correction and usage: Shabd shuddhi, vakya shuddhi, muhavare and lokoktiyan.

Part C: Knowledge of Computers

• Fundamentals: Basic applications of computers and their components, input and output devices, hardware, software, CPU, peripherals, storage media and firmware.

• Software: Operating systems, open source concepts, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, PDF, internet and e-mail.

• Security and governance: Computer viruses and anti-virus, the role of IT in governance, and IT Acts and regulations.

Part D: National Health Programmes

• National Health Mission: Its programmes, including RCH, and the communicable and non-communicable disease control programmes and their activities.

• Ayushman Bharat: Ayushman Bharat and related health programmes.

This part is short in the official list, so read the official scheme pages for each programme and keep one-page notes with objectives, target groups and key services.

Part E: Professional Qualification (270 Marks)

This is the heart of the exam. The official list follows diploma-level medical laboratory technology, grouped below by subject.

Anatomy and Physiology

• Basics: Cells, tissues (epithelial, muscular, connective, cartilage and bone) and necrosis, blood.

• Systems: Circulatory, digestive, respiratory, nervous, endocrine, urinary, skeletal, muscular and reproductive systems; ear, nose, tongue and skin.

Clinical Pathology and Quality Control

• Laboratory practice: Introduction to clinical pathology, safety measures, internal and external quality control.

• Urine and body fluids: Collection, preservation, gross, chemical and microscopic examination of urine; CSF, semen and other body fluid analysis; norms of biomedical waste and discarding infected blood.

Haematology

• Counts and indices: RBC, WBC, absolute eosinophil, platelet and reticulocyte counts, haemoglobin estimation methods, packed cell volume, blood indices, ESR.

• Smears and special tests: Peripheral smear preparation and staining, normal and abnormal RBC and WBC morphology, differential count, bone marrow examination, osmotic fragility, foetal haemoglobin, G6PD, sickling test, automation basics.

• Coagulation: Coagulation cascade, bleeding and clotting time, clot retraction, prothrombin time, APTT, thrombin time and FDP.

Blood Banking

• Donors and storage: Donor screening and selection, collection and storage of blood, preparation of blood components.

• Grouping and compatibility: ABO, Rh and other blood group systems, Bombay group, slide and tube methods, reverse grouping and discrepancies, cross matching, Coombs test, gel techniques and transfusion reactions.

Microbiology, Virology and Immunology

• Parasitology: Protozoa, nematodes and platyhelminthes: classification, life cycles and laboratory diagnosis.

• Bacteriology: Gram positive and gram negative cocci and bacilli, enterobacteriaceae, fastidious organisms, spirochaetes and mycobacteria: morphology, culture and biochemical identification.

• Virology and immunology: General features of viruses, HIV and hepatitis viruses; antigen-antibody reactions, precipitation, agglutination, ELISA, immunofluorescence, PCR basics and hypersensitivity.

Histopathology and Cytology

• Histopathology: Collection and numbering of specimens, fixatives, tissue processing, block making and section cutting, frozen sections, decalcification.

• Staining and mounting: Haematoxylin and eosin staining, special stains, immunohistochemistry basics, mounting techniques and museum maintenance.

• Cytology: Collection of material, smear preparation, fixatives, stains and Barr bodies.

Biochemistry

• Metabolism: Carbohydrate, protein, lipid and nucleic acid metabolism and their disorders, including diabetes, glycated haemoglobin and gout.

• Organ function tests: Kidney, liver and cardiac profile tests, pancreatic enzymes, gastric juice, haemoglobin and porphyrins.

• Methods and quality: RIA, ELISA and chemiluminescence principles, normal ranges, quality control, auto analysers and reporting of results.

Environmental Studies and Bio-medical Waste

• Environment: Biotic and abiotic environment, pollution of water, air and land, control strategies and related acts.

• Bio-medical waste: Types of bio-medical waste, collection, treatment and safe disposal.

High-yield areas inside Part E are haematology, blood banking and clinical biochemistry, because they carry the longest topic lists in the official syllabus. Questions in the 2025 paper also tested applied laboratory knowledge, such as which stain or test suits a purpose, so learn procedures and principles, not just definitions.

How Your Diploma Maps to the Exam

Is There an Interview or Practical Test?

No. The 2025 scheme had only the written exam, followed by eligibility checks and document verification by NHM or RajMES. There is no separate syllabus for an interview or practical test, so the written paper is the whole contest.

Where to Spend Your Time

How to Cover the Syllabus

1. Weeks 1 to 6: Anatomy and physiology, haematology and clinical pathology from your diploma books, with a daily 30-minute general knowledge slot.

2. Weeks 7 to 10: Blood banking, microbiology and immunology; start topic-wise tests and maintain an error log.

3. Weeks 11 to 14: Histopathology, cytology and biochemistry; add computers, Hindi, English and health programmes in rotation.

4. Final phase: Full-length 150-question mocks, same-day analysis and error-log revision until the exam.

For timed practice in the current pattern, you can attempt RSSB Lab Technician online tests on Testkart and use the section-wise analysis to see which part of the syllabus costs you marks. Pair them with the official 2025 master question paper from the RSSB previous papers page to understand the real difficulty level.