Mohammed Younus / hyderabad : The possible changes in the pattern of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) would surely help the Telugu students in securing good ranks and possibly break the barriers for South Indian students altogether. Students from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and other southern states were agitating against the new pattern of examination in Preliminary examination of UPSC which was introduced in the year 2011.
With an intention to seek the views of all party leaders Central government has recently convened a meeting with leaders of all the opposition parties to come to an amicable solution on this issue. The aggrieved students claim that the second paper of the CSAT, which tests among other things, logical reasoning, analytical ability, basic numeracy and English language comprehension, puts rural students and those from non-English medium school background, at a disadvantage.
Terming it a sensitive issue the Centre wanted to include the views of all political parties and come to a solution. It was decided that all the party leaders would give their opinion on five issues related to CSAT exam including on continuation of English language comprehension skill, reduced weightage of analytical component, to make paper-II qualifying criteria and to revert back to optional paper.
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) would prepare a comprehensive report on the structure and pattern of the civil services examinations, held for several years in the country and changes made over a period of time in a day or two and would provide it to all the party leaders. Students and educationists from Telugu speaking and southern states were against the present pattern alleging that it was creating North-South or Urban-Rural divide amongst the students.
A civil aspirant from the state M Ajay Kumar said that hundreds of students were deprived of getting into the competition at the very initial stage in preliminary examinations by virtue of CSAT. He said, “If Centre was of the opinion to make the changes in the pattern, it should weed out the CSAT completely or else it should be amended in such a way that all the students could be able to attempt it.”
During the recently held preliminary examinations only 535 students from AP and TS have qualified out of 29,500 attempted. The decline in the number of students qualifying from these states was witnessed ever since the new pattern was introduced. Anyhow, the Centre’s stance to seek the opinion from all party leaders may yield some solution to this problem which was reportedly creating disparities among urban and rural students and was criticized by the experts and educationists.
Terming it a sensitive issue the Centre wanted to include the views of all political parties and come to a solution. It was decided that all the party leaders would give their opinion on five issues related to CSAT exam including on continuation of English language comprehension skill, reduced weightage of analytical component, to make paper-II qualifying criteria and to revert back to optional paper.
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) would prepare a comprehensive report on the structure and pattern of the civil services examinations, held for several years in the country and changes made over a period of time in a day or two and would provide it to all the party leaders. Students and educationists from Telugu speaking and southern states were against the present pattern alleging that it was creating North-South or Urban-Rural divide amongst the students.
A civil aspirant from the state M Ajay Kumar said that hundreds of students were deprived of getting into the competition at the very initial stage in preliminary examinations by virtue of CSAT. He said, “If Centre was of the opinion to make the changes in the pattern, it should weed out the CSAT completely or else it should be amended in such a way that all the students could be able to attempt it.”
During the recently held preliminary examinations only 535 students from AP and TS have qualified out of 29,500 attempted. The decline in the number of students qualifying from these states was witnessed ever since the new pattern was introduced. Anyhow, the Centre’s stance to seek the opinion from all party leaders may yield some solution to this problem which was reportedly creating disparities among urban and rural students and was criticized by the experts and educationists.
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