A segment of examinees who sat for the competitive 40th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) exam on Sunday staged a sit-in demanding re-evaluation of the written paper results due to some technical difficulties and overlapping OMR issues during the exam.
The sit-in protest took place near the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) premises in Agargaon from 10am to 1pm. Around 200 examinees from across the country took part.
They placed a written complaint to PSC regarding this issue but PSC officials are yet to respond, said Saidul Khan, one of the examinees.
This was their third day on the street since the BCS written paper results were published on January 27.
Later, they arranged a press conference at Dhaka University Journalists' Association (DUJA) where they gave a 24-hour ultimatum to PSC to recheck the written papers. The examinees threatened to launch a tougher movement if PSC did not comply.
“The PSC re-evaluated papers of the 34th BCS batch after a legal issue. Our demand is also logical, so we want our papers to go through a rechecking procedure. The result seems very questionable when considering our participation in good faith,” said Jubayer Ahmed, another first-class government job seeker.
Speakers at the press conference also said that there are countless examples of people who were hopeless about their results after they attended a terrible exam. Some people had a good exam and surprisingly passed it, while others retook the exam and still found themselves failing.
"We are not here to blame the PSC, rather to raise our voice that there may have been some technical difficulties in the procedure. This was my last BCS exam and I put in a lot of effort in the exam but the result is quite unexpected and surprising," said Jibona Akter Nodi, who came to Dhaka from Kishoreganj to join the protest.