PANJIM: In the pre-screening test for Junior Scale Officers (JSO) conducted recently by the Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC), 230 candidates were declared successful out of around 2,200 who answered and these candidates will now have to answer the main Computer Based Recruitment Test (CBRT).
This information was revealed by GPSC. A total of around 3,000 applications were received for 15 positions advertised.
As was the case in the last pre-screening exam, this time too, 60 per cent of the successful candidates were engineers while the other 40 per cent belonged to the faculties of Humanities, Commerce, Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Architecture, Law and Pharmacy.
At the earlier pre-screening examination for JSO a similar number of candidates had attempted the examination and 101 were successful showing a huge improvement in the performance of candidates at this exam.
The candidates who cleared the pre-screening test will now have to answer the main CBRT followed by a written exam and interview thereafter.
The syllabus for the main CBRT comprises Indian history, environment and ecology, governance, innovation, geography, logical reasoning and analytical ability and English and is a 75 marks examination of multiple choice types to be complete with 75 minutes.
There is no negative marking at these exams and every right answer is assigned one mark and a wrong answer zero marks. The results of these examinations are declared the moment the examination ends and each candidate can see his/her score on the computer screen. This is the fifth attempt the commission is undertaking to select candidates for the position of JSO.
It may be recalled that in the earlier attempts the commission could select 1, 2, 6 and 7 candidates at the first, second, third and fourth attempts respectively.
