Following every Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination, job aspirants often find themselves confused regarding errors in the question paper.
Following Friday's 46th BCS preliminary examination, numerous posts flooded social media platforms raising doubts about the validity of the question paper and what steps the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) might take to address them.
What PSC does
Asked about the matter, PSC Controller of Examinations (Cadre) Ananda Kumar Biswas said they had not heard about any errors this time.
Usually, when such allegations come, PSC first verifies the matter, and then gets it verified by an expert team.
“If a question is wrong, then we do not deduct any mark. Everyone gets the marks for that question, no matter what their answer is,” he said.
46th BCS preliminary examination
The 46th BCS preliminary examination was held simultaneously in the divisional cities of Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet, Rangpur and Mymensingh.
A total of 3,140 people will be appointed in the BCS. The maximum number of assistant surgeons in the health cadre will be 1,682, assistant dental surgeons 16, and the education cadre 520.
Besides, 274 people will be taken in the administration cadre, 10 in foreign affairs, 80 in police, 14 in Ansar, 26 in fisheries and 65 in public works.
A total of 338,000 applications were submitted against a total of 3,140 vacant posts.
