Friday, November 18, 2011

JPSC to revise model answers soon

After receiving the conclusion by the panel, the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) is ready with new set of answers. The panel was set up for validating complaints about anomalies in the model answers given by it for preliminary exam of fourth civil services. The updated model answers would be put on commission’s website by next week that would surely upset the cut-off marks and reshuffle the list of successful candidates.

Sources in the commission said that many more names would be added in the list of candidates. “As anomalies have been found in almost all the subjects the process is taking time. We were expecting (revised result) this week itself but wanted to validate the findings from our own experts. If the commission decides that a fresh list of candidates should be released then we would come-up with a revised PT result soon,” said an official of the JPSC.

Meanwhile, declaring result in the proportion of the candidates appeared in the examination took place in March this year has turned a bone of contention. High court, while hearing the plea filed by a section of candidates, has given two-week time to the commission for filing its reply. The petition demanded that the number of successful candidates in PT exam should be 10 per cent of the candidates appeared in it. The commission on its part had reached to the Government for any direction in this regard but no instruction as come so far, leaving it in limbo.

“If we go for 10 per cent formula then probably 4,000 more candidates may figure in the list. Otherwise from 500 to 1,000 more candidates would be inducted based on the revised answers,” added the officer.

About 24 subject experts were roped in by the JPSC to evaluate the objections raised by some candidates after the official answers were displayed following the PT result. According to insiders, the panel of subject experts had found the objections correct for almost all subjects. Subjects such as history, geography and some others have as many as six to seven wrong answers.

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