UPSC aspirants move HC over ‘vague’ questions in prelims
The Hindu
Several civil services aspirants moved the Delhi High Court on Wednesday, claiming that the recently conducted Civil Services Preliminary (CSP) exam was full of “vaguely worded” questions that were open to subjective interpretation.
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Several civil services aspirants moved the Delhi High Court on Wednesday, claiming that the recently conducted Civil Services Preliminary (CSP) exam was full of “vaguely worded” questions that were open to subjective interpretation.
The petition stated that many questions in the CSP exam had more than two possible answers. But the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) “decides that one of them is the correct answer and marks the candidates accordingly”.
The plea, filed by 17 UPSC aspirants, highlighted one such question — “In essence, what does ‘Due Process of Law’ mean?” The options were a) The principle of natural justice; b) The procedure established by law; c) Fair application of law; d) Equality before law.
The petition, filed by advocate Rajeev Kumar Dubey, stated that there is confusion regarding this question among all those who appeared for the exam.
“Since the UPSC doesn’t release the official answer key, one would never know which option they have presumed to be the correct answer,” the petition read.
The case came up for hearing before a Vacation Bench of Justice Manoj Jain, who scheduled it for hearing on July 3.
The All-India level NEET examination was started a few years ago to counter complaints of corruption during the joint entrance examinations held at the State level. AIDSO had warned the authorities that the solution to the menace of corruption was not changing the examination system, but to investigate the corruption and punish the guilty.
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