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CPCT Hindi Typing Test (Mangal Font)
What to know about CPCT's Hindi typing component, the Mangal font it commonly uses, and where to practise it with a Remington Gail or Inscript keyboard.
Practise CPCT Hindi on the Mangal typing test
The Mangal font typing test shows its passages in Mangal and accepts Remington Gail or Inscript input, which is the text CPCT’s Hindi component uses. It measures your speed and accuracy; it doesn’t convert them into CPCT’s bands yet.
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CPCT's Hindi Typing Component
CPCT's typing evaluation covers both English and Hindi, and candidates are generally assessed on whichever language(s) apply to their target post or certification track. The Hindi component commonly uses the Mangal font — a standard Unicode-compliant Devanagari font, meaning text typed in Mangal is real, searchable Hindi Unicode text, not a legacy glyph-mapped font like Kruti Dev.
Mangal Font vs. Kruti Dev: Why It Matters
This distinction is worth understanding clearly if you're coming from a background of preparing for exams that use Kruti Dev (some UP/Rajasthan/MP-region exams do): Mangal and Kruti Dev are fundamentally different systems. Mangal is Unicode — any standard Devanagari font renders it correctly, and it's searchable and shareable as real text. Kruti Dev is a legacy, pre-Unicode font that maps keys to visual glyphs rather than real Hindi characters. See Kruti Dev Hindi Typing for the full explanation of that difference if you're unsure which one your target exam actually uses.
The Keyboard Layout: Remington Gail
CPCT's Hindi typing commonly uses a Remington Gail-style keyboard layout, which differs from the Inscript layout more commonly seen in other Hindi Unicode typing contexts (including this site's general Hindi Typing Test, which uses whatever Hindi keyboard your operating system provides — typically Inscript). See Remington Gail Keyboard Layout for what makes this layout different and how to set it up.
How to Practise for CPCT Hindi
- Practise on the Mangal font typing test with your Remington Gail (or Inscript) keyboard switched on. It’s the closest match on this site to CPCT’s Hindi component.
- Learn the Remington Gail layout specifically if you know your target CPCT track uses it — see the dedicated keyboard guide.
- Check CPCT's speed requirement for your track — see CPCT Typing Speed & WPM for how CPCT's band-based scoring works.
Common Hindi Typing Mistakes That Cost Marks
Speed is rarely what holds candidates back in the Hindi section. Accuracy is. These are the slips that turn up most often in Unicode Hindi typing:
- Matras left out or misplaced. Each matra is its own key depression, and one wrong matra makes the whole word wrong.
- The chhoti इ matra (ि). It appears before the consonant on screen, but on InScript you type the consonant first. Remington-style layouts follow typewriter order instead, which is one reason switching layouts close to the exam is risky.
- Half letters. On InScript a conjunct needs the halant (्) between its consonants. Remington Gail has separate half-letter keys.
- Anusvara, chandrabindu and nukta. ं, ँ and ़ are separate characters. हैं and है are different words to the scoring software.
- Purna viram. Hindi sentences end with । and not a full stop. Typing a full stop instead is a punctuation error every time.
The fix is the same for all of them: slow down until a passage comes out clean, then bring the speed back up. On the practice test, use the ⌫ toggle to switch backspace off for a few sessions. It shows you every mistake you’d normally correct without noticing.
A Practice Plan for CPCT Hindi Typing
- Fix your layout first. Decide between Remington Gail and InScript before you build speed, and don’t change afterwards. Speed built on one layout doesn’t carry over to the other.
- Short and clean. Start with 5-minute sessions on the Mangal font typing test and repeat until you finish with almost no mistakes.
- Then go longer. Stamina matters as much as speed. Lengthen your sessions on the Hindi typing test, which lets you choose the duration, until a long passage is as clean as a short one.
- Practise both languages. CPCT assesses English as well. The CPCT typing test covers that side, and the 15 minute typing test builds endurance in English.
How your speed turns into a CPCT result is explained in CPCT typing speed and WPM, and what the certificate is used for in What is CPCT?
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, CPCT includes a Hindi typing component alongside English, commonly using the Mangal font (Unicode Devanagari) and a Remington Gail-style keyboard layout.
Mangal is a Unicode-compliant Devanagari font — text typed and displayed in Mangal is real, standard Hindi Unicode text, unlike legacy non-Unicode fonts such as Kruti Dev.
Yes. The Mangal font typing test displays passages in Mangal and accepts Remington Gail or Inscript input, so it’s a direct way to practise CPCT’s Hindi component. It reports your speed and accuracy but doesn’t convert them into CPCT’s bands; see CPCT typing speed & WPM for how the bands work.
Commonly a Remington Gail-style layout, distinct from the Inscript layout used in many other Hindi Unicode typing contexts. See the Remington Gail Keyboard Layout guide for the difference.
