Critics raise objection to FPSC exams credibility-The News
Critics raise objection to FPSC exams credibility Shakeel Anjum-The News (December 20, 2013)
Echo of objections over the CSS Examination-2013 is being raised from different quarters all over the country, creating ambiguity in the course of the credible competitive examination, probably, for the first time in the history of the country.
The resound of the criticism over the competitive examination, could be heard in the corridors of the Parliaments House and the lawmakers are thinking to address the matter.
The people raising objections are of the view that on one hand the state of Pakistan faces acute scarcity of brilliant minds in districts administration, police and revenue departments on the other hand the result of CSS-Examinations, 2013 does not only raise the eye brows of many but also, it badly damages the credibility of FPSC and educational institutions in the country.
“Even during British rule, the competence and objectivity of superior civil servants was invariably considered the only criterion for their selection so that they can deliver justice, eradicate crimes and maintain law and order all over British domain. After Pakistan’s independence, the superior civil servants were primarily supposed to be competent and nationally as well as humanly spirited souls to ensure good governance and better future to the new sovereign nation. History of nearly seven decades of misrule in Pakistan out rightly negates this prerequisite for selection of CSP Officers through FPSC.
Recently announced result of CSS-Written Examinations, 2013 produces extremely depressive conclusion, perilously damaging our national cohesion in the future, which is already under emerging constraints. According to it, out of 11,480 candidates appeared in the written CSS-Exam, 2013, only 238 candidates have been declared as qualified, which is 2.7 per cent of the total candidates. Although, the CSS written exam held in February, 2013 was initially infested with notorious scandal of Faisalabad centre where the examination-papers were leaked in connivance of examiners, custodians and overseers, yet the main characteristics of the long-awaited, controversial too, result nullifies tall claims of honesty, secrecy, transparency and accountability FPSC usually brags off,” the people, raising objections, maintained.
Originally, 15,998 applied but 11,406 actually appeared in the written exam, however, only 172 male and 66 female candidates qualified the exam, totalling only 238. Some failed candidates on CSS Forum have posted alarming data, which has not so far been rebutted by FPSC, according to which 98 qualified candidates belongs to Lahore, 36 Islamabad, 14 Faisalabad, 15 Rawalpindi, 12 Multan, 1 Sargodha and 1 Sialkot, numbering as much as 165 from Central Punjab and only 12 from entire South Punjab. Similarly, among the qualified candidates of Sindh, 12 belong to Karachi, 2 to Larkana and 2 to Sukkhar. Only 8 qualified candidates appearing on Balochistan domicile belong to Quetta while the entire province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has only 3 lucky candidates who belong to Peshawar and Abbottabad.
In nutshell, the entire province of Sindh finds no representation in the future civil bureaucracy except 12 from Karachi while 2 each from Larkana and Sukkhar, which makes negligible impact. The entire Balochistan, except Quetta, finds no room in the slot of the future ruling elite and the same is with the KP that has 3 successful candidates belonging to Peshawar and Abbottabad.
Even if the candidates have been selected on merit, the ultimate outcome of the result shall cost grave impact on the minds of the unemployed but educated youth of the under-developed area having no educational facilities at par with Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, and Karachi. However, this is not the case of natural deprivation because the standard FPSC applied for marking and selection of the candidates evidently shows many loop-holes, showing vital discrepancies in the system and standard of marking as it is gravely self-contradictory. For instance, the candidates who obtained more than 650 marks have been declared failed but those who have secured only 600 marks being passed in all subjects are declared passed.
Likewise, a large number of the unsuccessful candidates are passed in “Essay” are failed in “Précis” and those who are passed in “Précis” but failed in “Essay”. It is appalling to note that the components of “English Précis and Composition” paper not only include ideas summation but also idea expansion. It further includes language skills test encompassing vocabulary and grammar test. Evidently, if a candidate passes this paper while failing essay, it is indicative of the fact that either the language skills were not properly tested in “Précis” paper or the essay paper was not effectively marked. Not only that but also the sequence of the passing candidates according to their Roll Nos. is amazingly interesting. Out of 617 from Roll No.1 to 617, only 4 candidates are passed but 4 candidates out of only 33 candidates from Roll No.618 to 667 are passed while the result of three more candidates having Roll No614, 638 and 667 has been held up. Despite sequential scepticism in the passed candidates, there are some mysterious pairs. For instance, Muhammad Imran and Muhammad Irfan Roll No.618 and Roll No. 619, respectively are among the passed candidates. Another pair of the lucky candidates having roll no.11216 and 11217 are among 238 candidates declared qualified.
Generally, FPSC blames the universities in its annual reports for poor results of the candidates but it considers itself far beyond scrutiny and accountability. If audit of the performance of their chosen ruling elite, FPSC shall be the national institution giving the nation the army of incapable, arrogant and dishonest superior civil servants who have led this country in unending peril.
The spokesman for the FPSC, Rameez Ahmad, when contacted by this scribe to seek his comments, rebuffing the objections raised by the critics, said that paper marking was not job of FPSC and the FPSC could not evaluate it. He said that the FPSC selects the panel of examiner with tough criteria who check papers. “We cannot ask the examiners to increase the marks of any candidate,” the spokesman said adding, “This is a subjective approach, not objective.” Responding to a question, Rameez said that the standard of graduation has transformed and now the graduates have degree of equal to masters as they get degree after 4 years instead of two years. “Doctors and engineers are graduates too,” he maintained.
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