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24th Aug 2018 09:08:PM State
ES Reporter
ITANAGAR, Aug 24: Hundreds of APSCCE prelims-2017 aspirants on Friday organized a peaceful procession followed by sit-in protest at IG Park here, demanding a reexamination of prelims-2017 considering many errors they claimed to have discovered in many optional subjects.
Interacting with presspersons, one of the aspirants of Geography, who requested anonymity, alleged that “uniformity” was not maintained while setting question papers and there was extreme lack of moderation and scaling in many optional subjects of this year’s prelims exam.
According to the agitators, there are as many as 68 questions for geography which were serial wise copied from UGC-NET JRF 2014 and in public administration 75 questions from a single source that is public administration by Laxminath (Tata Mcgraw Hill publication). And in history, 55 questions were ditto copy pasted from an unreliable website, wwwcbsenetugc.com and 22 questions of law from www.examrace .com.
The agitating students are of the view that there might be chances of leakages too as the questions were already in public domain.
“The very prestige of civil service examination wasn’t maintained. Have you ever heard of a commission which declares the results in phase wise manner? Why is the commission reluctant to furnish us the Answer Sheets to check cut off marks ratio and answer keys etc when we sought through RTI? If such is the state of affairs at the Commission then how can we consider that the test was a fair one,” questioned another candidate of Law.
“The State Information Commission should impose a fine or take action against the commission officials for violating the RTI Act 2005," he appealed. He continued that examination conducting bodies such as APPSC need to comply with RTI Act 2005 which includes provisions to provide copies to students regarding their answer-sheets, cutoffs, answer keys and inspection of answer copies.
They also requested to conduct the APCSSE examination on the lines of Union Civil Services and terminate the services of all those responsible for the blunders.
Kenter Joya Riba
(Managing Editor)She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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