Bihar Teacher Recruitment: BPSC gives relaxation to candidates, may reduce minimum qualifying marks, 75 percent seats will be filled

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BPSC TRE 2023: To fill up 75 percent of teachers’ seats, BPSC may cut below the prescribed minimum qualifying marks. Commission Chairman Atul Prasad gave this information by tweeting on Friday. According to him, the minimum qualifying marks have been fixed by the General Administration Department, the cutoff can go below that.
At present, the minimum qualifying marks prescribed by the General Administration Department are 40 per cent for general category, 36.5 for BC, 34 for EBC, 32 for SC and ST and 32 per cent for women of all categories. Going by the type of questions asked in the exam conducted on Thursday, the possibility of falling below the minimum qualifying marks cannot be ruled out. In such a situation, the seats were getting vacant, now the seats will not be vacant due to low qualifying marks. There are 79,943 posts of teachers for primary schools. There are 32916 posts in secondary and 57602 in higher secondary.

Here on Friday, on the second day of the teacher appointment examination, 11 Munnabhai appeared in the examination with eggs instead of others. They were discovered with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI). They were arrested from different districts of the state. Commission Secretary Ravi Bhushan said that 11 people appearing for the exam have been arrested in Gaya, Patna, Siwan, Kishanganj, Saran, Shivhar and Gopalganj among others. After registering an FIR at the local police station on the orders of the DM of the concerned district, they were sent to jail. One of the candidates from the center set up in Patna’s College of Commerce has been caught giving the exam instead of another.

The next day was the language test. About eight lakh 14 thousand candidates were to be present in it. A lot of strictness is being used by BPSC. Attendance of candidates was around 70-75 percent. The level of language questions was very easy. Besides 25 questions from English, 75 questions each from Hindi and Urdu were asked. Candidates only have to pass in this. Candidates were also scrutinized strictly. After the completion of the examination, the question papers were opened in front of the candidates at the centers and the OMR sheets were sealed in front of them.

Secondary and Higher Secondary Examination is on Saturday
The first shift secondary and second shift higher secondary exams are scheduled to be held on Saturday, the last day of teacher recruitment exams. Including both shifts, one lakh candidates will appear for the exam. Examination is to be held in four sections on Saturday. The exam will be held in Patna Division, Bhagalpur, Purnia and Muzaffarpur Division. 63 thousand candidates are to be examined in the first shift and 39 thousand candidates in the second shift. The number of examination centers is also less on Saturdays.

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