MPSC (Prelims) exam row
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 25 2016:
Candidates who appeared the MPSC 2016 preliminary examinations have today urged competent authorities not to re-conduct the MPSC 2016 (prelims) examination.
Speaking to media persons, one Hawaibam Pradipkumar said faulty instruction (at Instruction no 9) in the question booklet of the Manipur Civil Services Combined Competitive Preliminary Examination 2016 conducted by MPSC on May 15 regarding penalty or no penalty for wrong answers had stirred controversy.
A JAC formed against the misconduct has demanded re-conduct of the examination.
Pradipkumar has questioned the JAC's claim that candidates at centres like Standard Robarth Higher Secondary School, CC Hr Secondary School, Imphal College and some others were not informed that there will no negative marking.
He said the JAC is generalising the matter as other candidates in the same centres have claimed that they were informed of the faux pas by the assigned invigilators.
Even if a re-conduct of the examination is to take place, it should be only for genuinely aggrieved, willing candidates from the above mentioned centres who were not informed of the matter on the examination day, he stated.
Most of the candidates who are demanding re-examination are ones who did not fare well in the prelims, he alleged.
It will be unfair for those candidates who had put in tremendous effort and had fared decently in the said examination.
Candidates opposing the re-examination have urged the JAC and other bodies to take back their stand.
They have further appealed to the exam centres to step up and clarify the allegations charged by the JAC against them.