Will give marks for faulty questions, TNPSC tells court
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:18.06.2019
The Tamil Nadu Public Services Commission (TNPSC) on Monday informed the Madras high court that the allegations of wrong answer keys released for the preliminary examination conducted for recruitment to Group-I services had been resolved and appropriate additional marks were allotted to the deserving candidates.
In view of receipt of 4,390 representations from the candidates on 96 such wrong answers and incorrect questions, the commission constituted an expert committee, which thoroughly analysed the representations and due marks have been allotted to candidates who attended such questions, R Thara Bai, deputy secretary, TNPSC, said in an affidavit.
“The committee in its analysis found that for 12 questions all options were either wrong or ambiguous. For five questions, two or more options were correct and for seven other questions tentative answer keys alone were wrong,” the report said.
As a matter of fact, pursuant to the above exercise, candidates including the petitioner have been allotted marks for 6 of 10 questions pointed out by him in his representation, the deputy secretary added.
The submissions were made on the plea moved by S Vignesh of West Mambalam, an unsuccessful candidate of the preliminary exam conducted on March 3. The petitioner alleged that 18 of 200 answers released by TNPSC for the preliminary examinations for Group-I services were wrong.
Recording the submissions made by the TNPSC, Justice V Parthiban adjourned the plea to June 19 for further hearing.
According to the petitioner, the commission released the answer key on March 4 on its website with a note that if any of the answers in the key is incorrect, candidates were invited to challenge the respective questions with correct answers by uploading proper source of reference material to the website within seven days.
Though the petitioner and others found 17 answers and one question wrong and challenged them with appropriate reference materials, the commission, without considering the same, released the list of selected candidates and main examination was conducted on April 3.
Claiming that the entire recruitment process is not transparent, the petitioner submitted that if appropriate marks were given for the wrong answer keys, he would get 195 marks instead of the current 175.5.
The petitioner wanted the court to quash the final answer key published on March 4 and the list of selected candidates provisionally admitted for main written examination in respect of posts included in the combined civil service and public exam (Group-I services). He wanted the court to direct the commission to revise the answer key and the list of selected candidates.
The committee in its analysis found all choices wrong or ambiguous for 12 questions, two or more options correct for five questions, and tentative answer keys wrong for seven other questions
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:18.06.2019
The Tamil Nadu Public Services Commission (TNPSC) on Monday informed the Madras high court that the allegations of wrong answer keys released for the preliminary examination conducted for recruitment to Group-I services had been resolved and appropriate additional marks were allotted to the deserving candidates.
In view of receipt of 4,390 representations from the candidates on 96 such wrong answers and incorrect questions, the commission constituted an expert committee, which thoroughly analysed the representations and due marks have been allotted to candidates who attended such questions, R Thara Bai, deputy secretary, TNPSC, said in an affidavit.
“The committee in its analysis found that for 12 questions all options were either wrong or ambiguous. For five questions, two or more options were correct and for seven other questions tentative answer keys alone were wrong,” the report said.
As a matter of fact, pursuant to the above exercise, candidates including the petitioner have been allotted marks for 6 of 10 questions pointed out by him in his representation, the deputy secretary added.
The submissions were made on the plea moved by S Vignesh of West Mambalam, an unsuccessful candidate of the preliminary exam conducted on March 3. The petitioner alleged that 18 of 200 answers released by TNPSC for the preliminary examinations for Group-I services were wrong.
Recording the submissions made by the TNPSC, Justice V Parthiban adjourned the plea to June 19 for further hearing.
According to the petitioner, the commission released the answer key on March 4 on its website with a note that if any of the answers in the key is incorrect, candidates were invited to challenge the respective questions with correct answers by uploading proper source of reference material to the website within seven days.
Though the petitioner and others found 17 answers and one question wrong and challenged them with appropriate reference materials, the commission, without considering the same, released the list of selected candidates and main examination was conducted on April 3.
Claiming that the entire recruitment process is not transparent, the petitioner submitted that if appropriate marks were given for the wrong answer keys, he would get 195 marks instead of the current 175.5.
The petitioner wanted the court to quash the final answer key published on March 4 and the list of selected candidates provisionally admitted for main written examination in respect of posts included in the combined civil service and public exam (Group-I services). He wanted the court to direct the commission to revise the answer key and the list of selected candidates.
The committee in its analysis found all choices wrong or ambiguous for 12 questions, two or more options correct for five questions, and tentative answer keys wrong for seven other questions
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