The civil service aspirants feel ‘cheated’ by the government’s decision Monday to exclude English language comprehension marks from the CSAT paper, while preparing the merit list for the civil services examination.
Earlier, Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh told Parliament the English language comprehension skills should not be included for gradation or merit in the civil services examinations.
The students who have been protesting since long, however, said their demands of scrapping the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT) exam, which was introduced in 2011, and postponing the 24 August prelims exam remain unfulfilled.
‘We were assured that the CSAT will be done away with, but the minister’s statement talks nothing about it. Instead, they have cheated us by deciding to not consider the marks for English comprehension,’ Subhankar Vats, a civil service aspirant from Jharkhand, said.
The preliminary examination comprises two papers - General Studies (Paper I) and CSAT (Paper II), both carrying 200 marks each. Ashish, another aspirant, expressed unhappiness over the government allowing another attempt in 2015 only to those candidates who wrote the exam in 2011. According to Ashish, their fight was never about languages.
Earlier, Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh told Parliament the English language comprehension skills should not be included for gradation or merit in the civil services examinations.
The students who have been protesting since long, however, said their demands of scrapping the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT) exam, which was introduced in 2011, and postponing the 24 August prelims exam remain unfulfilled.
‘We were assured that the CSAT will be done away with, but the minister’s statement talks nothing about it. Instead, they have cheated us by deciding to not consider the marks for English comprehension,’ Subhankar Vats, a civil service aspirant from Jharkhand, said.
The preliminary examination comprises two papers - General Studies (Paper I) and CSAT (Paper II), both carrying 200 marks each. Ashish, another aspirant, expressed unhappiness over the government allowing another attempt in 2015 only to those candidates who wrote the exam in 2011. According to Ashish, their fight was never about languages.