Current Affairs 2018
The voice to scrap Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) and to replace the interview with a psychological test has been raised by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS).
RSS has urged the Modi government to change the pattern of the civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). According to the Sangh, the CSAT exam is disadvantageous for those who choose the Hindi Language and accused that the interviews are not uniform.
The suggestion of doing away with both came after a committee formed by the RSS on competitive exams has submitted his report to the government. The report was submitted at an event held in New Delhi. The event was attended by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat along with other senior members of the Sangh, members of the central government and UPSC and other important people.
Here are the highlights of the report suggested by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS):
- According to the committee set up by the RSS, there should be improvements in the exam pattern so that every candidate gets equal opportunity without any discrimination.
- There is no proper examination of the qualifications required for the job for the way exams are being conducted right now.
- The committee says that the CSAT exam is disadvantageous for those who belongs to Hindi medium and accused that the interviews are not uniform..
- According to the committee, around 90% of the candidates who qualify CSAT are from English medium schools.
- For the interview, the committee states that there is no uniformity in its pattern. Candidates are affected by different patterns of different panels.
- The committee has also suggested that the government should provide training to the panel conducting the interview and also monitor the process.
Apart from this, the committee has suggested replacing the interview as the psychological test conducted in the army recruitment examination. The committee has also proposed to release the answer key for the UPSC mains examination. At present, the Answer Key of UPSC Preliminary Exam is only released by the commission, not the Main Examination.
“The interview process is already highly standardised…There is a panel of five, and you are informed of who is on the panel only an hour before the interview,” he said. “If there is some bias, it is inevitable because ultimately it is an interview…Some degree of subjectivity is only natural,” The UPSC official replied in regards to the RSS committee report.
