WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: The Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC) has decided to hold screening test for aspirants of Junior Scale Officer (JSO) next month. The successful candidates will then be allowed to answer the Computer Based Recruitment Test (CBRT).
The CBRT, which was actually scheduled on March 29, was postponed by the Commission due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
GPSC Chairman Jose Manuel Noronha said that to expedite the recruitment of JSOs the commission has now decided to conduct a screening examination on November 21 and 22, to determine those candidates who will qualify to answer the main CBRT.
The commission had received around 3600 applications for 22 posts of JSO that were advertised by GPSC in January this year.
"In view of the pandemic and the social distancing norms mandated by the authorities the commission has decided to introduce a screening examination prior to the main JSO CBRT and this screening examination will be a one hour CBRT which will consist of 60 questions of which 50 will be on reasoning and 10 on English comprehension. The screening exam will be of one hour duration and the minimum qualifying percentages to be obtained are 65 percent, 60 percent and 55 percent for General, OBC/PH and SC/ST category respectively," Noronha informed.
To ensure all COVID-19 norms are duly followed, the GPSC has chalked out a plan wherein all the candidates will be randomly assigned into ten batches of approximately 360 candidates in each to answer this screening CBRT.
In another change, the question set for each batch will be different but the difficulty level will be similar.
There's however a good news for those who score up to 5 percentage marks as they would be given another attempt to appear for next set of screening CBRT.
"In order to afford another opportunity to those who do not pass this exam at the first attempt, only those who score up to 5 percentage (3 marks) less than the minimum required to qualify in their category ( GEN/OBC/PH/ST/SC) will be eligible to answer a repeat examination of a similar pattern on November 28. All those who qualify at this examination including those who qualify at the repeat examination will be eligible to answer the main CBRT which will be a 75 mark paper and the details of this exam including the prescribed syllabus are uploaded on the commissions website," said the Chairman.
Successful main CBRT candidates will then be allowed to answer a written examination that comprises of four papers followed by interview round.
The commission has been able to select only 9 candidates out of the 11 advertised in 2016 although three attempts were made by the GPSC to select suitable candidates. The Chairman is hopeful that the candidates will be better prepared this time and the commission is able to select appropriate candidates for all the 22 vacancies that have been advertised.
