Mohammed Younus/ Hyderabad : Anxiety over the discrepancies in the UPSC Preliminary Aptitude Test examination pattern is steadily growing with each passing day as the present pattern only gives advantage to Hindi-speaking candidates and urban aspirants. UPSC aspirants and educationists are questioning the commission’s urban-oriented examination pattern and have demanding the UPSC to revoke CSAT completely from the examination.
Aspirants from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana said that the orientation of the examination pattern is dangerously tilted towards urban students and hindering the rural aspirants from even qualifying the preliminary examination. An aspirant, Uday Kumar, said that disparity among the rural and urban students has been increased since the inception of this pattern. He said, “This examination pattern is completely benefiting urban candidates and putting rural students are at loss.” Noted civil service trainer R C Reddy said that UPSC authorities are testing the mathematical and technical skills rather than testing administrative skills of the appearing skills of the aspirants.
He said, “Out of 80 questions asked in CSAT papers only six pertain to administrative skillset and others are related to mathematics.” Another aspirant K Venkat Yadav said, “The Centre has taken a decision to remove 20 marks of the English comprehensive component that further cut shorts the marks of south Indian students, as it does not have negative markings. Giving 30 marks for qualification in Paper I and 70 marks in Paper II (CSAT) is unscientific.” Another civil service trainer Padmaja Rani said that the examination pattern is totally unscientific and added, “Students coming from urban background are getting more marks in CSAT because the questions are given in English and Hindi and south Indians students could not understand it in a short period of 90 seconds.
That is how they are filtered out of the competition in the beginning itself.” She further said that this disparity is leading to higher cut offs and decrease in the number of qualifying students from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. She said, “Questions asked in CSAT are only meant to assess mathematical and English languages skills and urban candidates obviously have an edge over rural students.” Aspirants informed that earlier around 70 students from AP and Telangana used to get selected in UPSC, but not this number has come down to 30. Students complain that different qualification marks of the Interview boards also an unscientific method. Students and aspirants are agitating against the alleged discriminatory examination patter of the UPSC in preliminary paper II which plays a decisive role in qualifying.
Telugu Desam leader R Krishnaiah and educationist R C Reddy extended their support to the cause of agitating students. R Krishnaiah said that any attempt to discriminate the south Indian and rural students and demanded to remove current UPSC chairman. Noted educationist R C Reddy said that most of the political leaders don’t know what exactly the crux of the problem is. He said that the CSAT was aimed at assessing technical and mathematical skills rather than assessing administrative skills. Students have been staging dharna at Indira Park for last three days demanding scrapping of CSAT completely or include all regional languages in the examination.
9Aspirants from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana said that the orientation of the examination pattern is dangerously tilted towards urban students and hindering the rural aspirants from even qualifying the preliminary examination. An aspirant, Uday Kumar, said that disparity among the rural and urban students has been increased since the inception of this pattern. He said, “This examination pattern is completely benefiting urban candidates and putting rural students are at loss.” Noted civil service trainer R C Reddy said that UPSC authorities are testing the mathematical and technical skills rather than testing administrative skills of the appearing skills of the aspirants.He said, “Out of 80 questions asked in CSAT papers only six pertain to administrative skillset and others are related to mathematics.” Another aspirant K Venkat Yadav said, “The Centre has taken a decision to remove 20 marks of the English comprehensive component that further cut shorts the marks of south Indian students, as it does not have negative markings. Giving 30 marks for qualification in Paper I and 70 marks in Paper II (CSAT) is unscientific.” Another civil service trainer Padmaja Rani said that the examination pattern is totally unscientific and added, “Students coming from urban background are getting more marks in CSAT because the questions are given in English and Hindi and south Indians students could not understand it in a short period of 90 seconds.
That is how they are filtered out of the competition in the beginning itself.” She further said that this disparity is leading to higher cut offs and decrease in the number of qualifying students from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. She said, “Questions asked in CSAT are only meant to assess mathematical and English languages skills and urban candidates obviously have an edge over rural students.” Aspirants informed that earlier around 70 students from AP and Telangana used to get selected in UPSC, but not this number has come down to 30. Students complain that different qualification marks of the Interview boards also an unscientific method. Students and aspirants are agitating against the alleged discriminatory examination patter of the UPSC in preliminary paper II which plays a decisive role in qualifying.
Telugu Desam leader R Krishnaiah and educationist R C Reddy extended their support to the cause of agitating students. R Krishnaiah said that any attempt to discriminate the south Indian and rural students and demanded to remove current UPSC chairman. Noted educationist R C Reddy said that most of the political leaders don’t know what exactly the crux of the problem is. He said that the CSAT was aimed at assessing technical and mathematical skills rather than assessing administrative skills. Students have been staging dharna at Indira Park for last three days demanding scrapping of CSAT completely or include all regional languages in the examination.
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