BPSC 53-55TH EXAMINATION: HORRIBLE SITUATION

As news is coming that a writ (CWJC 15423/2011) is pending in Honorable Patna High court against preliminary examination. A case was filled in 2011 and now hearing is in its large stage. And so the examination is also in its last stage. Interview of all 2610 successful candidates is over. They are waiting for final result. However a case related to moderation is in larger bench. But in between, case related to PT came as a monster. According to sources, reservation followed in PT was wrong (as few students are claiming). They might have got some support from Allahabad High Court proceedings on very same issue. In BPSC some students might have missed mains examination (can not confirm) on that rule, due to screening nature of preliminary examination. Since reservation is a very sensitive issue, and has been guaranteed by our constitution to some unprivileged of our society. Hence it is not a matter of debate for us and it is better to avoid this issue. But the issue which has come out is that, petitioners are demanding a single mains examination for all students. Their logic is that mains examination is not a screening test, but its marks decide the final selection and overall ranking. They are giving the example of Odisha Public Service Commission. But the basic issue here is that why honorable high court waited so long for this issue? Since mains examination was held in April-May 2012, and case was filled in 2011, then why mains examination was not stayed earlier? Why BPSC didn’t take initiatives to resolve that issue before mains examination? It is empathic situation. Who is to be blamed for torturing those students who appeared in the mains examination or in interview?

It is true that even moderation adopted in mains examination is under observation of larger bench of Patna High court. But the interest of those, who have passed the mains examination, is not going to affect by adverse ruling (if any) in moderation issue, since it is unlikely that passed (in mains) will be ousted from the revised (if any) list. But as far as preliminary ruling is concerned, it will adversely affect all those who appeared in the mains examination as well as in interview. Since preliminary petitioners are demanding fresh preliminary result, fresh mains examination, on which honorable Justice Navaniti Prasad is some extent (perhaps) agree. However final verdict is yet to come on this case. If verdict comes like this, then whole procedure will start once again and litigation will continue, and BPSC might move (most likely) Supreme Court against the order. But at this juncture, nothing could be said. Matter is sub judice.  Before passing any judgment, let us wait for the verdict. We shouldn’t forget that about 20,000 students were declared qualified for the mains examination. 

UPPCS 2013 PRELIMINARY KEY ANSWER

 

Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has released the Answer key of State civil services preliminary examination 2013. You can approach UPPSC till 25th July for correction in answer key, if any. Please click link given below for Answer key

ANSWERR KEY

GENERAL STUDY-1       A           B               C              D

GENERAL STUDY-2       A           B               C              D

BPSC MODERATION: WHAT HONORABLE JUSTICE RAVI RANJAN SAID

 

Honorable Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan order regarding BPSC moderation on 53-55^th mains examination (CWJC 9569/2013, 9674/2013 and many more) is now on public domain. However, all details of hearing are not in order copy, and also honorable Justice hasn’t passed any judgment, except accepting references of Honorable apex court judgment and referring it to the honorable Chief Justice of Patna High Court. In whole order copy, one is petitioner’s views and one is BPSC counsel view. Only at one point Justice Ravi Ranjan has accepted that apex court has said that moderation is not sufficient in case where multi-subjects examination is held. Honorable Ravi Ranjan said:

“From perusal of the aforesaid it would appear that the Apex Court has come to the conclusion that the procedure of moderation would only solve the problem of examiner Variability, where the examiners are many but valuation of answer-scripts in respect of a single subject is done and all the subjects are compulsory, however, moderation would be no answer where the problem would be to find out inter se merit across the subjects where examination has been conducted in different subjects. It has been held that, in order to solve the problem of inter se merit across different subjects, statistical experts have evolved a method known as scaling that is creation of a common scale. On that pretext it is being urged that, since admittedly, the Bihar Public Service Commission had adopted method of moderation for bringing uniformity which has already been held insufficient and improper in such examination by the Apex Court where different subjects are to be opted by different candidates, that has resulted in disparity in the scoring by the candidates in the different subjects.”

It also says “It is submitted that the Bihar Public Service Commission has adopted moderation and not the method of scaling in violation of the direction of the Division Bench contained in Annexure 6 which was passed on the basis of the judgment of the Apex Court in the judgment of Sanjay Singh (supra).”

One more thing, Justice Ravi Ranjan also mentioned Prashant Ramesh Chakrawar (supra) case. But let me remind you that in that case 6 steps of moderation is mentioned, and this judgment came in February 2013. But at that point of time, BPSC has already moderated answer sheets of students. Because in its affidavit BPSC clearly said that decision on moderation was taken in mid January 2013. It clears that BPSC violated the double bench order which has said until you make any rule, follow Sanjay Singh direction of Supreme Court. As said above that in Sanjay Singh case Supreme Court has favored scaling in those examinations where optional papers exist. It is also clear that (according to BPSC affidavit) so far BPSC hasn’t framed any rule regarding moderation or scaling. It means no rules were framed then Sanjay Singh (supra) order has to be followed. Even Chakrawar steps were not followed. BPSC didn’t followed any steps, because honorable Justice had said BPSC counsel during hearing that you didn’t prepare a model answer which was one of the steps of Chakrawar moderation formula.

Second and more important, BPSC has clearly stated in its affidavit that moderation was done on those students who scored more than 60% marks and less than 30% marks. This has not been mentioned in order copy. But one must not forget that after repeatedly asking, BPSC didn’t elaborate its process of moderation.  Hence this serious issue is going to be raised in the larger bench.

 One can draw many conclusions, but matter is serious and has to be dealt carefully. That is why Honorable Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan has referred it to the larger bench, where most probably Honorable the Chief Justice of Patna High Court Rekha M. Doshit will chair the bench. Since no written stay is there, hence BPSC might declare the final result, but BPSC counsel has promised the Judge (Dr. Justice Ravi Ranjan) that no result will be published until case is  resolved, even BPSC is also saying that until case is pending no result will come. Let us see whether oral promise of stay is maintained which needs moral. About BPSC morality------?

 

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BPSC 53-55TH RESULT MODERATION: JUDGMENT RESERVED

 

LATEST: CASE RELATED TO MODERATION HAS BEEN REFERRED TO LARGER BENCH (CONSTITUTION BENCH), WHICH MIGHT COMPRISE HONORABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF PATNA HIGH COURT AS WELL AS TWO OR MORE OTHER JUDGES.

After a long period of hearing, Honorable Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan has reserved the judgment of the case related to 53-55^th combined competitive mains examination moderation. It was a marathon hearing of almost 15 days. According to the advocate of students Shri Dinu Kumar, who challenged the moderation, case looks like in a favour of students. However it is yet uncertain what judgment will be delivered by Honorable Justice. But at the last day of hearing, BPSC’s advocate and advocate general of Bihar Government Shri Lalit Kishore failed to present any factual basis and proofs in support of BPSC’s moderation process. Despite repeatedly asked to present the methodology on which moderation was done, BPSC counsel didn’t present the methodology applied. It was clear that either BPSC didn’t follow any method or it didn’t want to disclose publically which is obviously strange.  Finally Honorable Justice asked Dinu Kumar whether whole mains examination should be cancelled? However before Dinu Kumar could reply, Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan said that since process had gone at the extent of interview level, hence it would not be wise to cancel the whole examination. He was little in dilemma as well in a tough position, which he clearly elaborated, but he said that he would do something and find a way which might be a middle path.

Well, this is the situation at present. It is true that publishing of final result has not been stayed. But, at the same time Honorable Judge said that if decision goes against the commission, then whole result, if published, will be quashed. However BPSC's counsel Lalit Kishore said that result will not be published until case is disposed off.

 

It is strange that when interview was going on, students demanded to stay the process until case is disposed off, but Dr. Ravi Ranjan said that no need to stay since commission would not publish the result before disposal of case. Even BPSC counsel agreed with the judge. Let us wait whether oral order is followed or not.

Now going through the whole process and hearing, it is quite clear that BPSC is in defensive mood. During whole hearing process, either BPSC counsel took Passover or said that it had followed UPSC, KPSC, MPSC. However the counsel also said that UPSC process was not followed completely. Honorable Justice Ravi Ranjan asked BPSC repeatedly that just you were saying that you had followed a-b-c-d, but didn't elaborate what you had done? Even at one point of time Honorable Justice commented that BPSC moderation was like “ a farmer is in Punjab and child bore by a letter.” On 6^th July, 2013 Honorable Justice passed a written order and asked BPSC that whether that had followed UPSC moderation or not? But once again BPSC counsel repeated what he had said in earlier hearings. One of the students group advocate Shri Y.V. Giri said that Honorable Patna High Court Double bench had clearly said that rule regarding scaling should be framed within six months, but BPSC didn't make a rule. It is clearly breach of justice and hence whole moderation should be sidelined. Honorable Justice was agree with Girijee and noted some points on his logic. Honorable Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan clearly said that BPSC moderation is bogus. 

So present scenario could be described as “wait and watch.” According to BPSC fighter group (those fighting against moderation) they are hoping a positive outcome, however not a complete outcome according to their wishes. Yet something is better than nothing. But in the whole proceeding, BPSC moderation’s limitations were exposed. One expects fair play from a constitutional body like BPSC. But only constitutional tag attached doesn’t guarantee fair play. We shouldn't forget that currently one former chairman and two former members of BPSC are in the Jail for malpractices. We shouldn’t also forget that Karnataka Public Service Commission’s recruitment process is under scanner and is being investigated by CID. BPSC is saying that it has followed Karnataka moderation.  What conclusion one can draw from this whole process? You can’t follow quite defined formula of scaling which is followed by all Hindi belt State Public Service Commissions but you are presenting the example of Karnataka which process is under scanner. Decision might go one way or other way but constitutional body like BPSC shouldn’t runway from its responsibilities in the age of right to information.

Here are the possibilities now:

 

1. Whole result will be quashed: (unlikely scenario since Judge said that pass students interest should also be minded)
2. Petitioners will be allowed: (Unlikely since final result is yet to be published and overlooking higher marks is not possible)
3. Result will be published without moderation and those coming above earlier cut off will be called for interview: (Most likely scenario)
4. Petition will be dismissed: (Unlikely since Honorable Judge has said that bpsc didn’t followed the procedures, it was on wrong foot, BPSC’s fault has been exposed and proved)
5. Scaling should be followed instead of moderation (Quite unlikely since it will revamp whole result).

One is free to take position in this scenario. Decision is likely to be delivered next week. Till then wait and guess.

 

JPSC 5TH CIVIL SERVICES NOTIFICATION

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FOR JHARKHAND LABOUR SERVICE SELECTION OF LSW AS A ONE OF THE OPTIONAL PAPER IN MAINS IS MUST
After a long wait and controversies, Jharkhand Public Service Commission has finally notified the advertisement for 5^th Combined Competitive Examination. Followings are the details of notification:

Notification Date: 2^nd July

Total number of posts: 236 (Jharkhand Administrative Service:91, Jharkhand Police Service: 41, Jharkhand Finance Service-31, Jharkhand Labour Service-20, Jharkhand Jail Service-09, Probation Officer-29, Excise Inspector-9, Labour Superintendent-7)

Last Date for Submitting Online application: 10 August, 2013

Last Date for Submitting Printed application through post: 21 August, 2013
Maximum Age: Maximum 35 years on 1 August 2009. (For General)
Minimum Age: 20-22 Years for various services on 1 August 2013

Number of attempts: 4 (Excluding 1^st and 2^nd Combined Examination)
Number of Passed in prelims: 12 to 13 times of total number of posts

Preliminary Syllabus:
General Study 1 (Total Marks: 100)
History of India and National Movement
India and World Geography
Indian Polity and Economy
History, Geography, Economy and Culture of Jharkhand
General Study 2-(Total Marks-100)
General Science
General Mental Ability
Current events of State, National and International importance

TOTAL MARKS: 200

BPSC MODERATION: ABOVE 60% ARE NOT ALLOWED

    

MPPSC PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION RESULT DECLARED. CLICK HERE

Bihar Public Service Commission has submitted its affidavit regarding 53-55th mains examination moderation. In its affidavit, BPSC says that in multi-papers, students whose marks were more than 60% was moderated. Even those who scored less than 30%, were moderated. It also says that, so far it hasn't make any rule, after final result it will amend it's rule for moderation. It also says that it has followed Karnataka and Maharastra Public Service Commission. 

      It is no secret that competitive examinations are held for choosing the best. But in BPSC case, rule is something different. How can anyone justify that good performer should be penalized? Even a layman can raise finger on this so called moderation of BPSC. If we go by BPSC's moderation stand, it clearly indicates that those who scored 130 out of 200, were penalized, and those who scored 110 out of 200 were not touched. Is this a examination, or a drama orchestrated by constitutional body like BPSC? Shame to such constitutional body. 

     Now come to second point, BPSC says that it will amend its rule regarding moderation after process is over.  It is well known fact, which has been supported by honorable Supreme Court and high courts umpteen times that if process has started, no amendment should be initiated. BPSC can argue that double bench of honorable Patna High Court had suggested it to follow and make a rule. But why BPSC didn't make any rule in one year. Does it need 5 years to make a rule for that (which it has not followed, which is followed by all state public service commission of Hindi region)? Ridiculous. God save this constitutional body.

    BPSC says that it has followed Maharastra Public Service Commission.  Maharastra Public Service Commission’s civil services mains examination is of objective type (form 2012). Come on, UPPSC, Chhattisgarh public service commission, Madhya Public Service Commission, Rajasthan Public service commission, all Hindi region state commission follow scaling. They follow scaling which is quiet defined and is based on statistical formula (Mean and standard deviation). Even these commissions always mention it in their advertisement that they will follow scaling.

   All the above logics of BPSC are ridiculous, illogical, irrelevant, illegal, intentional, biased, unconstitutional and above all autocratic in nature. Time has come to mend the rotten constitutional body like BPSC.

UPPCS 2013 ADMIT CARD DOWNLOAD

Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission will hold state upper subordinate preliminary examination 2013 on 26-06-2013.

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JPSC 5th Civil Services: Number of attempts will be increased

JPSC has written a letter to the state government to increase number of attempts from 4 to 6 for state civil services examination. Currently state government has fixed 4 attempts for 5th civil services examination. Some students had approached JPSC chairman to increase the number of attempts seeing the past records of state civil services examination where genuine students were not selected (1st and 2nd civil services examination). In turn JPSC chairman wrote a letter to state personnel department. In its letter JPSC chairman has said that since CBI inquiry is going on first and second civil services examination, hence deserving students didn't utilized first two chances. Consequently all  students should be given more attempts. Considering JPSC chairman's initiative, one can expect positive outcome from the government. Although, students are also demanding to fix cut off year 2007 for age count, yet nothing is clear about this demand. However JPSC chairman has said to student's representatives that he would talk about that matter to personnel department. 

UPPCS Preliminary Examination 2013 Rescheduled on 26th June

Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has re-scheduled the preliminary examination 2013 on 26th June. It was scheduled to be held on 4th June. About 4.30 lakhs students have applied for the examination. Scrutiny of application forms as well as preparing admits card in three weeks was a daunting task. Apart from that, students had complained that Chhattisgarh pcs preliminary examination is on 9 the June and even some students are appearing in Rajasthan Administrative Service mains examination. Keeping these facts in mind UPPSC decided to postponed the examination for a two weeks. 
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JPSC 5th Civil Services age controversy

Jharkhand Government has sent requisition for 192 posts to be filled by JPSC through 5^th Combined Competitive Examination. JPSC is ready with its advertisement but age related controversy has created deadlock in a way of notification. READ MORE HERE

JPSC 5th CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION NOTIFICATION SOON

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FOR JHARKHAND LABOUR SERVICE SELECTION OF LSW AS A ONE OF THE OPTIONAL PAPER IN MAINS IS MUST
Jharkhand Public Service Commission will soon advertise vacancies for 5th Combined Competitive Examination. State personel department has sent requisions for 192 posts of different depatments. Here are the list of different posts:

Jharkhand Administrative Service: 91 posts

Jharkhand Police Service: 41 posts

Jail Superitendent: 9 posts

Jharkhand Labour service: 20

Jharkhand Finance serivce: 31

 More seats of other departments (education service, Registration service) will be added further after roaster clearance. 

Preliminary examination for JPSC 5th civil services will be held under new pattern. In preliminary examination students will have to appear in two General Study Compulsory papers of 100 marks each. 100 questions will be asked in both GS papers. It means, student will not choose optional paper in preliminary examination. However mains examination syllabus will remain same where students will be asked to opt two optional papers.

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BPSC 53-55 MAINS RESULT: DEVASTATING AND SHOCKING

Bihar Public Service Commission after almost one year of mains examination, published mains result of 53-55th examination. Total 2610 students have been called for interview. Everybody was expecting positive result. It is true that result can not satisfy each and everyone. But it is also true that it satisfies those who performs better. Unfortunately this is not the case as far as BPSC is concerned. Due to moderation formula good students paid heavy prices. It seems sub standard teachers were involved in evaluation process. That is why some good answers were beyond their understanding. They awarded marks not on answer, but on their limited irrelevant opinion. 

Those students who are not in the list, must be in a shock. It is obvious. They have right to fight against injustice done to them by so called constitutional body like BPSC. Something is wrong with this commission which must be stopped. Because in 3 years, process is still on. They took almost three years, yet not satisfactory. Some illegal means are also there. Some back door entries are also there which will not be proved. But one can not and should not keep silent on these wrongdoings of BPSC.  

Last but not the  least, if you are interested in appearing in future exams of BPSC, then first you should fight in the court against this system, otherwise forget about BPSC and concentrate on other state public service commission examinations which are more standard than BPSC. All the best those who qualified. This post is nothing against a genuine.  

UPSC CIVIL SERVICES MAINS EXAMINATION 2013 SYLLABUS CHANGED

REVISED SYLLABUS

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NOW COMBINED PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION FOR INDIAN FOREST SERVICE AND CIVIL SERVICES
Union Public Service Commission notified The Civil Services Examination 2013 advertisement. UPSC has changed the syllabus of mains examination. In another drastic change, UPSC will conduct Indian Forest Service preliminary examination with Civil Services preliminary Examination. It means from now onward combined preliminary examination will be conducted for Indian Forest Service and Civil Services Examination. However mains examination of both the services will be conducted separately.

In Civil Services mains Examination 2013 instead of two optional papers, now student will opt only one optional paper. Weight-age of General Study has been increased. Here is the new pattern of Civil Services mains examination:

Main Examination
The written examination will consist of the following papers:
Paper-I
English Compulsory (300 Marks)

Paper-II
Eighth Schedule Languages Compulsory (300 Marks)

Paper-III
Essay  (250 Marks)

Paper-IV
General Studies–I 250Marks (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society)
Paper-V
General Studies –II: 250 Marks
(Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations)
Paper-VI
General Studies –III 250 Marks (Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)
Paper-VII
General Studies –IV 250 Marks (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude)
Paper-VIIII
Optional Subject – Paper 1 250 Marks
Paper-IX
Optional Subject – Paper 2 250 Marks
Sub Total (Written test) 1750 Marks (COMPULSORY LANGUAGES NOT INCLUDED WHICH ARE QUALIFYING IN NATURE)
Personality Test 275 Marks.
Grand Total 2025 Marks

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BPSC 53-55th result: The waiting will soon be over

CLICK HERE FOR PATNA HIGH  COURT ORDER ON 53-55TH RESULT

Patna High Court Order on BPSC 53-55th result: On 28-02-2013 honorable Justice Mihir Kumar Jha issued notice to BPSC and Bihar government on Bihar Audit Service. Some students have challenged against adding 100 Lekhadhikari post in this vacancy. According to the petitioner examination of state civil services and Audit service are different. They also say that no advertisement were advertised for Lekhadhikari post. So without advertisement BPSC can not recruit candidates. Honorable justice ordered that fate of 53-55th mains examination result will depend on this petition. State government has to respond within a week. Now wait one more week for this case result.
Creation of Circle Officer post and cabinet decision: Bihar Cabinet today (26-02-2013) gave green signal to the creation of Posts of 'Anchaladhikari' (Bihar Revenue Service). This decision was taken in Today's Cabinet meeting chaired by Bihar Chief Minister. However it is not clear, whether these posts will be added in current examination or in next advertisement. But chances are that State government will not wait three more years for these crucial posts. Hence it might be added this year. Some confusions are still there. For example, what is the meaning of 'creation of Anchaladhikari' post, when post is already there? Everything will be clear in a few days.
I had said in my one of the posts that "Patience is youth treasury, but making them patient on the name of patience is tragedy." In the BPSC 53-55th case, it is quite implicit that how a constitutional body like BPSC is testing the patience of poor unemployed youths of Bihar. Almost 9 months have passed, result has not been declared so far. UPSC declared the result within 3 months, JPSC declared in 3 months. Nobody knows why BPSC is delaying the result. Now everybody is guessing that it will be declared latest by 15th March. That is not far too away. But out of 13000, only 3000-3500 will get chance of personality test. Rest 10000 will get nothing in this waiting. Such is the state of affairs of BPSC. I am not pessimistic, neither I am making you pessimistic, but who can guarantee that everything will be fine  in the coming result. And who can guarantee that BPSC will not repeat it's mistake, as it did in 48-52nd examination. I was going through the marks of first 200 students who appeared in the 48-52 mains examination. What I found, was astonishing. None (except 3 to 4 students) of those first 200 students got more than 690 marks, except those who had opted Anthropology, Philosophy and Farsi. Even scoring 660 marks was tough last year, if your optional were not from these three optional. On the contrary, due to one of these three optional papers, candidates made their place in the interview list. Will BPSC except it's fault? Not at all. Anyway that was last examination. You may ask that why I am giving these facts at the time of result. Well, it has some positive implications, that is why I gave all these analysis. 

Above analysis clearly shows that even scoring 670 marks in the mains examination is tough, if marks are not awarded blindly in a few subjects. Although BPSC history says that some subjects always outperform rest of the subjects alternatively, yet one should not loose hope seeing the number of record posts. Don't forget that BPSC will not follow moderation or scaling in this examination. Hence if one or two subjects score comparatively better, it will not be surprising. But at the same time, one can accept that last year, which was not mere mistake but was a clear case of negligence where 179 marks were awarded in Anthropology and Philosophy, will not be repeated. 

Currently, number of posts are 1106. Vigilance DySP posts will be added in a few days after some corrections in the minimum age requirement. As far as Bihar Revenue Service Posts are concerned, it is quite clear that Bihar government Land and Revenue department has committed mistake. Bihar Revenue Service rule clearly say that Circle Inspector posts will be filled by Commission. In the rule commission has been defined as Bihar Public Service Commission. Hence these posts are to filled by BPSC and not by BSSC. If this correction is not amended, then one can move court. However, there is a buzz that the state government has amended its rule, some posts of Circle Officer will be filled by BPSC directly. Since CI recruited by BSSC will take 15 years to become CO, it is tough for government to function without officers. It means, one can expect addition of CO posts in current vacancy.

Now as far as cut off is concerned, if last examination mistakes are not repeated then one can expect interview call if one has scored 670 marks in general category. As I said earlier, that two subjects alternatively performs better, this year can not be a exception. But last examination was exceptional case. It is better to forget that and move ahead. This year, it is not easy to score even 670 marks. Hence, despite some subjects do better, cut off will not, I hope so, cross 680 marks. Although you can say that there is nothing new in this post, but now only you can expect something new from BPSC. It is matter of two weeks, keep praying for the best. 

CIVIL SERVICES MAINS EXAMINATION 2012 RESULT DECLARED

Union Public Service Commission declared Civil Services Mains Examination 2012 result on 22 February, 2013. About 2680 students have been declared successful for personality test which will begin from 4 March, 2013.  Civil Services mains examination was conducted in the month of October-November 2012. 

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BSSC FIRST GRADUATE LEVEL MAINS EXAM. ANSWER KEY AND CUTOFF

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Bihar Staff Selection Commission conducted first graduate level mains examination (Sachiwalaya Sahayak Examination) on 27 January, 2013. Mains examination question paper and Answer key have been provided on Commission's website. Any error in question paper or in answer can be informed to BSSC till 31 January, 2013. After then no complain will be entertained. It shows that BSSC is serious in declaring the result as soon as possible. It can be expected before 20 February, 2013. 

    As far standard of questions are concerned, it was a mix bag. It was not on the pattern of preliminary examination. All sections were mixed. There were very few questions from math. Except 5 to 6 questions of word formation , all reasoning questions were not so tough.   GK questions were not so lengthy as it was in the mains. In the Reasoning section unlike PT. examination, not too many questions were asked from arithmetic. It means GS and Science questions are going to decide the final merit. One can say that it was little easy. 

        Keeping all these factors in mind one can expect a cut off marks based on one's performance. Since the General Hindi paper was qualifying in nature, hence its marks will not be added in the merit list preparation. So merit list will be prepared on the marks scored in Second sitting's paper only. In the preliminary examination cut off for general candidate's was 342 (on the basis of first result). In the mains examination cut off will be certainly go higher. How much, it is very tough to say. But one can guess and say that it will be around 390-400 marks for general category. It may be wrong, but is only speculation. Now it is up to you, to debate on the cut off. However BSSC is not going to give you enough time in debating the result, because final result can be expected anytime after 15 February. Total number of seats are 3285. 

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No Objection in Declaring result of BPSC 53-55th Examination

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Now there is no objection before BPSC in declaring the result of 53-55th combined competitive mains examination. A writ was pending in the bench of Honorable Chief Justice of Patna High Court against the combined examination held by BPSC. A bunch of petitioners had filed writ against holding the combined examination. According to the petitioners, BPSC can't hold two or three examination in one go. It was illegal. But Honorable Chief Justice Rekha M. Doshit and Ahsanuddin Ammanullah rejected their petitions on 15 Januray, 2013.. It means BPSC can now declare the result of 53-55th mains examination. Similarly it can now advertise the vacancies for next combined examination.  

BSSC GRADUATE LEVEL MAINS EXAM. ADMIT CARD

Bihar Staff Selection Commission will held first graduate level mains examination on 27 January, 2013. Mains examination will be held in two sittings.

First Sitting: General Hindi (10.00-12.15)

Second Sitting: General Study (2.00-4.15)

Those who are going to appear in this examination can download their admit card by clicking link given below:

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BPSC 53-55TH EXAMINATION: 284 RDO POSTS ADDED

Bihar Government Rural Development Department, via Personnel Department, has sent requisition for 284 more posts of RDO to BPSC. The said department had already sent 250 seats earlier. Since total cadre strength of Rural Development Officer (RDO) is 534. It was decided that all the posts should be filled on one go. Hence, rest 284 posts will also be filled through 53-55th examination. Apart from 284 posts of RDO, requisition for more than 30 posts of Minority Welfare Officer have also been sent to BPSC. These posts will be filled through the said examination. According to the sources, total seats, to be filled by 53-55th mains examination, have increased to 1063. Chances of adding more posts can not be ruled out. Even in 48-52nd examination, requisition for District Education Officer posts were sent after mains examination. It means, one can expect about 1100 posts in the said examination. It also means that about 3000 students will be called for interview. More seats and more students mean lower cut off. One more thing, unlike 48-52 examination, no boom factor is going to play any role this year. Keeping all these factors in mind, Cut off for general category is not going to exceed 690. However, as far as BPSC examination is concerned, using 'certainty' word is little risky. Hence 'disclaimer me', is added here.  Result might be declared latest by the second week of February. In fact, simultaneously with tabulation, preparation of interview panel lists has been started in BPSC office. So I pray success for all my friends who are attached with this blog. Once again best of luck to all of you. 
FOR INTERVIEW: This blog has already a tab related to Interview. In that section some questions have already been mentioned, which have been asked in different boards. Since I am working in a leading Civil Services career magazine, I have great resources of current affairs questions. Wait for few more days, I am in the process of putting some questions in that section.   

BSSC GRADUATE LEVEL EXAM. JUDGMENT EVALUATION

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THOSE WHO FORGET ROLL NUMBER OF PT. EXAM. CLICK HERE FOR THEIR RESULT
Honorable Patna High Court had delivered the Judgement on 30 October, 2012 on first graduate level examination. Mains examination is scheduled on 27th January, 2013. According to the Judgment copy following points were raised during hearing: 

1. Cancellation of result of Graduate Level Preliminary Test Examination, 2010 

2.Handing over the investigation to C.B.I. after registering a formal F.I.R

3. Impugned result on the ground that some of the questions were wrong, some had wrong answers, some were repeat questions of UPSC PT examination.

4. Some general aptitude  questions were more mathematics based than being general

5. The qualifying marks ought to have been lowered, as some of the questions had in appropriate data to chose the correct answers.

What Commission did?

1. The Commission constituted an expert committee consisting of expert teachers of all subjects to re-evaluate the questions and Model answers of the examination. The Commission  found that Model answers chosen for the test  in respect of question nos. 1, 80, 89, 93 and 130 were not correct and as such recommended the correct answer provided in the multiple choices.

2.Question no.27 has two correct answers namely option C and D, but evaluation was done on the basis of option C.

3. The Commission on re-evaluation found that question nos. 141, 142 and 143 had in appropriate data to 

choose two correct answers.The commission gave equal marks to all these candidates for these three questions.

4. Question no.19 was deleted as it had no correct answers.

5. Commission said that the elements of Math in general aptitude test was too general and too incidental and would fall in mental ability test category and was not mathematics based.

6. question no.117 was a general reasoning question and cannot be said to be out of syllabus as petitioners have prayed.

7. CBI opposes the prayer and submits that petitioners have not brought any tangible materials on record to show the collusion of the officials either in preparing question papers or its evaluation.

8. over 15 questions asked in the P.T. examination were repeat questions of UPSC PT examinations held in 2006 and it gave advantage to those who had taken the said UPSC PT examination. The grievance of the petitioners was rejected on two grounds. Firstly; there is no bar repeating the UPSC PT questions in any other examinations including the examination conducted by Bihar Staff Selection Commission for Graduate Level, secondly; the UPSC PT examination was held in the year 2006 and the instant examination was being held in the year 2010, as such the point  agreed by the petitioners is devoid on any merit and is rejected.

BEST OF LUCK FOR MAINS EXAMINATION

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JPSC 6th CIVIL SERVICES MAINS EXAMINATION WITHOUT OPTIONAL!

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After changing State Civil Services Preliminary examination syllabus, Jharkhand Public Service Commission is in the process of changing the mains examination syllabus. According to the sources JPSC is in contact with those state public service commission's who have already changed state civil services mains examination syllabus. According to the JPSC, 6th State Combined Civil Services mains Examination will be based on new pattern in which all papers will be compulsory. It means no optional papers will be in the mains examination. JPSC has already announced the changes in preliminary examination. Fifth State Civil Services Preliminary examination will be conducted without any optional papers. Commission is saying that a lot of problems were emerged during evaluation process in 4th civil services mains examination. Some subjects marking made JPSC to think about the changes in the mains examination. A committee under B.S. Dubey will sit in January 2013 to ponder about the changes. So, be ready for optional less and all compulsory based 6th State Civil Services mains examination. 
CHHATTISGARH STATE CIVIL SERVICES MAINS WITHOUT OPTIONAL: Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission has published the advertisement for State Civil Services Examination. According to the mains syllabus, candidates need to appear in all 7 compulsory papers. It means no optional papers in mains examination.
CLICK HERE FOR CHHATTISGARH STATE CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION 2012 ADVERTISEMENT
Happy New Year.

BSSC SACHIVALAYA SAHAYAK REVISED RESULT PUBLISHED

THOSE WHO FORGET ROLL NUMBER OF PT. EXAM. CLICK HERE FOR THEIR RESULT

CLICK HERE FOR BSSC CASE JUDGMENT 

MAINS EXAMINATION ON 27 JANUARY, 2013
APPLICATION LAST DATE: 17 JANUARY, 2013

CLICK HERE FOR MAINS EXAM SYLLABUS

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CLICK HERE FOR ADDITIONAL RESULT OF BSSC FIRST GRADUATE LEVEL PRE. EXAM.

CLICK HERE FOR EXCISE SUB INSPECTOR FINAL RESULT
After a long wait, Bihar Staff Selection Commission (BSSC) has finally published the revised result. Total 27289 students have been declared successful in revised result which include earlier successful students. Honorable Patna High Court on 30 October, 2012, had rejected the bunch of petitions filled against result of first graduate level examination. But the Court had ordered not to fail those 935 students who were declared successful in preliminary result but were failing after revaluation of answer sheets. According to the Commission total 1415 new students succeeded in revaluation. But problem arose, when some candidates scores were equal or more than those candidates who were not in the passed list. To short out this problem Commission sought suggestion from General Administration department. In turn, General Department sought guidance from Department of Law. After more than one and half month, General Administration Department sent its suggestion to the Commission. One can say that BSSC might have avoided this delay. It should have sought suggestions from Bihar Public Service Commission, which had faced similar situation in 53-55th preliminary result. But BPSC declared the result within a week without seeking guidance from any departments.  Any way, successful students should now concentrate on mains examination which is the most important phase. 

CLICK HERE FOR ADDITIONAL RESULT OF BSSC FIRST GRADUATE LEVEL PRE. EXAM.

JSSC SECRETARIAT MAINS EXAM. ANSWER KEY

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(SOME CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN DISQUALIFIED DUE TO NOT GETTING REQUIRED MINIMUM MARKS. THEIR ROLL NUMBERS ARE GIVEN IN THE LIST. HENCE THOSE CANDIDATES ARE OUT OF RACE PERMANENTLY.)

UPDATE: JSSC has issued a notice for those candidates who appeared in the mains examination. According to that notice each candidates have to keep ready their documents for verification, which will start in January 2013.  
CLICK HERE FOR DOCUMENT RELATED JSSC NOTICE
Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission has released answer Key of Secretariat mains examination held on 16 December, 2012. Any objection on model answer, should be submitted till 30-12-2012. It seems JSSC is in right direction to complete the whole process in time. Mains result will be declared (perhaps) in the first week of February 2013.
NOTE: COMMENT MODERATION ACTIVATED. YOUR COMMENT WILL TAKE MINUTES BEFORE IT APPEARS.  

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NOTE: COMMENT MODERATION ACTIVATED. YOUR COMMENT WILL TAKE MINUTES BEFORE IT APPEARS.



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JPSC STATE CIVIL SERVICES PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION NEW SYLLABUS

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JPSC 4TH PRELIMINARY RE-REVISED ANSWER KEY RELEASED

CLICK HERE FOR OFFICIAL RELEASE OF JPSC REGARDING NEW PATTERN 
So, after a long discussion Jharkhand Public Service Commission finally published the syllabus of state civil services examination. Jharkhand Public Service Commission announced that this change will be implemented in forthcoming state civil services examination. It means no Optional paper in preliminary examination. This blog had first reported about the changes. It was anticipated seeing the changes in UPSC as well as other state public service commission's changes. However, JPSC hasn't followed the CSAT syllabus of UPSC completely. Due to Optional papers in preliminary, JPSC followed scaling in fourth State Civil Services Examination. But this scaling didn't solve the problem and some students protested against this. Even a writ was filled in the Honorable High Court. Seeing the controversies, JPSC constituted a committee to suggest proposed changes. On the recommendations of said committee JPSC decided to do away with the optional in preliminary examination. However status quo has been maintained in the mains examination.

According to the syllabus released by JPSC, Preliminary examination will consist two paper, namely General Studies-1 and General Studies-2. These papers will be of multiple choices. Syllabus:
General Study 1 (Total Marks: 100)
History of India and National Movement
India and World Geography
Indian Polity and Economy
History, Geography, Economy and Culture of Jharkhand
General Study 2-(Total Marks-100)
General Science
General Mental Ability
Current events of State, National and International importance

TOTAL MARKS: 200

CSIR: COMBINED ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES EXAMINATION 2013

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIR) has invited application from eligible candidates for filling of administrative posts. Administrative posts will be filled through All India Competitive Examination (CASE-2013). 

Name of Post: Administrative Assistants
Number of Posts: 106
Minimum Qualification: Bachelor Degree in any discipline
Age: Upper age limit 28 Years on 31-12-12
Selection Procedure: Competitive Examination and Interview
How to Apply: Through Online (http://intranet.csir.res.in/case2013)
Last Date: 15 January, 2013 (earlier it was 31-12-12)

CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE ADVERTISEMENT OF CSIR-CASE-2013

JSSC VS. BSSC SACHIVALAYA SAHAYAK EXAMINATION

CLICK HERE FOR JSSC MAINS EXAMINATION ADMIT CARD

Jharkhand Staff Selection will held Sachivalaya Sahayak Mains Examination on 16^th December, 2012. Admit Card for JSSC mains examination has been uploaded on the commission’s website (http://www.jssc.in/). If nothing unusual happens, then final result will be declared by January 2013 itself. Now compare JSSC examination with Bihar Staff Selection Commission’s Sachivalaya Sahayak Examination (First Graduate level). BSSC had advertised the first graduate level vacancies on 17^th June, 2010 (click here for complete advertisement for BSSC First Graduate Level Examination). After one and half years of wait, preliminary examination was held on 18^th December, 2011. Result of preliminary examination was declared on 12 April, 2012 (click here for preliminary result). Due to some defects in model answer, unsuccessful candidates filed a writ petition in the Patna High Court. On 30^th October, 2012, Honorable Justice Samarendra Pratap Singh supported the BSSC logic and rejected the bunch of petitions filed by unsuccessful candidates. However, honorable Justice directed BSSC not to fail those candidates who have already been declared successful in the result. According to BSSC, number of such candidates are 935. After this verdict, BSSC chairman JRK Rao announced that commission would declare extra 1415 result and mains would be held between 16 to 20 December in Patna and final result would be declared on 13^th January, 2013. But, so far no extra result has been declared. It is said that one legal aspect has emerged. According to the BSSC, there are few more students, who have scored more than those 935 students in respective categories. Hence they have sent a file to General Administration Department for suggestion. Now General Administration Department is saying that they have sent a file to state Law Department for further actions. Nobody knows when these concerned departments will send suggestion to BSSC. Now, who is responsible for all these messes? One can say without hesitation that BSSC is solely responsible for delay. One should not forget that same situation had arisen before Bihar Public Service Commission in 53-55^th preliminary result.  But, BPSC never sought suggestions from any department and declared the additional result within 10 days. But so far more than 1 and half months have passed; BSSC hasn't come out with additional result.  In this way, one can easily say that BSSC is still lying there, where it was in December 2011. 

                           Contrary to BSSC, Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission had advertised the vacancies in May 2012, (click here for JSSC advertisement) preliminary examination was held on 30^th September, 2012, preliminary result was declared on 14^th November, 2012 (click here for JSSC preliminary result), and now mains examination is scheduled on 16^th December, 2012. It means, JSSC took only 6 months but BSSC has taken more than 2 and half years, yet nobody knows when BSSC’s first graduate level mains examination will be held. Bihar Government has implemented Right to Service Act, but it seems BSSC is above this act, where ‘responsibility’ word is irrelevant. But amid these irresponsible deeds of BSSC, poor and unemployed youth of Bihar are suffering. Who cares?

PROPOSED CHANGES IN CIVIL SERVICES MAINS EXAMINATION

Dilemma over proposed changes in Civil Services Mains Examination, conducted by UPSC, has still not over. Nobody knows when changes, if any, will take place. According to the Ministry of Personnel, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) have submitted a proposal to the Central Government suggesting certain changes in the existing scheme of Civil Services (Main) Examination to make it more relevant with the present day, global as well as internal scenario on the basis of the report of a committee, constituted by the Commission under the chairmanship of Prof. Arun S.Nigavekar, former Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC). Till now, no decision has been taken by the Government on these recommendations. This was stated by Shri V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office in written reply to a question by Shri Avinash Pande in the Rajya Sabha on 6 December 2012. This statement doesn't clarify whether any change will take place in forthcoming examination or not. Everything will be clear on 2 February, 2013, when UPSC will notify the Civil Services Examination 2013 advertisement. But it is now quite clear that, UPSC have already submitted its recommendations on proposed changes in the mains examination. So, now ball is in the government's court.

27th Bihar Judicial Service Result Declared

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Bihar Public Service Commission has declared the 27th Bihar Judicial Service Examination result on 30 November, 2012. Total 217 Students have been declared successful. Interviews of 559 students, declared successful in mains, were conducted between 30 October to 29 November 2012. Just one day after completion of interview, final result has been declared.
CUT OFF FOR CANDIDATES ARE: 
GENERAL: 566 (MAINS CUT OFF: 486)
SC: 459 (MAINS CUT OFF: 370)
ST: 480 (MAINS CUT OFF: 378)

CLICK HERE FOR 27TH BIHAR JUDICIAL SERVICE FINAL RESULT

JPSC 4TH CIVIL SERVICES FINAL RESULT DECLARED

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Jharkhand Public Service Commission has declared the much awaited 4th Combined Competitive Examination (State Civil Services) final result. Total 219 candidates have been declared successful. Lekhraj Nag is topper in Jharkhand Administrative service. Congratulation to those, who succeeded to get enrolled in final list, and for those who are not in list, better luck next time. And congratulation to JPSC who ultimately came out from the flood of controversies. Perhaps, never before in the history of civil services examination (in All India) preliminary result was revised three to four times. At the same time JPSC declared the mains result in three months, which is also a record. Some may doubt on whole process, seeing the past records of JPSC, but kudos to the chairman Shri Shiv Basant, who proved himself a good administrator, and came out successfully from those so called controversies.  Anyway, those who missed in preliminary qualified list, those who missed in mains qualified list and those who missed in the final merit list, world doesn't end here, start preparing for JPSC's 5th civil services examination. 

CLICK HERE FOR JPSC 4TH CIVIL SERVICES FINAL RESULT

BIHAR GOVERNMENT JOB REPORT CARD: 2 LAKH JOB ON PAPER

Patience is youth's treasury, but making them patient is tragedy

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar presented its 7 years report card ‘Nyay Ke Sath Vikash ke 7 Saal’ on 24 November, 2012. In this report card, the government has announced that in coming years more than 2 lakh vacancies will be filled and so more than 2 lakh unemployed will be employed. No doubt this announcement will make some unemployed youth happy. They will now start dreaming for a job in coming future which has yet not fulfilled in the last seven years. Government announcement shows it is at least serious about the unemployment in the state. But the moot question is that whether this announcement will remain on paper or will this target ever be fulfilled? If we look back in the last seven years, employment achievement of the government, it shows some different pictures. No doubt a large number of unemployed in the state were provided jobs. Government has succeeded, however partially, in preventing brain drain. Even in the context of laborers and at some extent educated youths, signs of reverse migration were noticed. It shows that some opportunities were created that is why educated youths as well as laborers are returning in Bihar. But we shouldn't forget that:

1.      A large number of youths were employed on contractual basis where they get merely Rs. 5000 to 10000 which is not sufficient when we imagine 10 percent inflation.
2.       Contractual job means uncertain future. Nobody can guarantee their future.
3.      State Public Service Commission and State Staff Selection Commission have advertised thousands of permanent jobs. But the functioning of these institutions shows that even 3 years are not sufficient for recommendations. For example, Bihar Staff Selection Commission had invited applications for first graduate level examination in 2010, now we are knocking the door of 2013, but process has not completed yet. Similarly in the case of BPSC’s 53-55 advertisement, mains result is yet to be announced.

Some more doubts are in mind, which force us not to accept every announcement as a reality. But there is no other way in front of Unemployed youths of Bihar. They are waiting for years and they can wait for more years. Patience is their treasury, but making them patient is tragedy.  State recruiting bodies should realize it. State government’s intention is good, but only good intention is not sufficient. Everybody should respect youth power.