PSC exams
After hearing all the clamour about the gross errors in this year's preliminary questions, I sat down to answer them myself and was shocked. Many questions in the Bangla, General Knowledge, Science and Math sections did not have the correct answers among all the four given alternatives. In one of the sets the instructions and the questions were all mixed up, confusing the examinees and preventing them even from attempting to answer, as there was negative marking for wrong answers.
When I was younger, at one time I used to set the question for the Everyday Science section of the PSC Examination and I did it for fun for many years. There were no complaints. I gave up when they asked me to see 400 scripts as part of my responsibility as a question-setter, with the regal honorarium of Tk.2 per script.
I can assure everybody that there is absolutely no way the government press could be made responsible for the serious errors in the questions this year and I can say with certainty that there is no way of rectifying the consequences of these errors. The exam HAS to be retaken.
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