Group-1 Mains examination: candidates seek probe citing anomalies

Even because the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) has introduced the schedule of interviews for the posts of varied providers beneath Group-1 from June 17, the candidates proceed to demand an investigation into the conduct of the examinations citing a number of anomalies.

Candidates who had appeared for the Group-1 Mains filed a petition within the A.P. High Court in opposition to digital analysis of reply sheets taken up by the APPSC. The court docket had posted the case for listening to on June 14, and requested the APPSC to file a counter affidavit.

The candidates say that digital analysis is susceptible to errors. Each examination paper has completely different topics comparable to geography and historical past, which require completely different analysis. The UPSC has gone for handbook analysis regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic. The experiences of PSCs of varied States present that digital analysis is susceptible to knowledge manipulation errors, they are saying.

“The APPSC has so far not clarified how different subject questions have been taken for evaluation by experts,” says a candidate.

“The APPSC has also not released the data on how many of the 6,800 candidates who appeared for the Mains examination in December 2020 wrote it in Telugu and English,” the candidates say.

As per the information of the earlier exams, 10-15% opted for Telugu medium, and the proportion of candidates chosen for interviews remained the identical.

But this time, an awesome 40-45% candidates chosen for interviews are from the Telugu medium, in keeping with the fee.

“How is the proportion so high? This implies that the APPSC has not taken up scaling parameterization thoroughly,” say one other candidate.

“We demand a judicial inquiry into the whole issue, followed by manual evaluation under judicial supervision,” says one more candidate.