Alarming CSS pass rate
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmaker Asad Umer and association have awoken to a excessively low pass rate for a Central Superior Services (CSS) examination. The pass rate for 2016, during 2.09 per cent, is roughly negligible, inspiring many to doubt either a examination is even applicable if it is so painstakingly formidable to pass. The Federal Public Service Commission has been righteously summoned to explain because a standards of a examination are not being met. There is a sardonic opening between a curriculum that is being imparted and a tangible hearing questions. It is revealing of contempt on a partial of examination makers who might not wish new possibilities to excel. Whether there is tainted play in movement or a need to deliberate educationists about a gap, a emanate can't be left alone as a CSS pass rate has generally been experiencing a downward trend over a years. In 2012, yet still in singular digits, a pass rate was 7.8 per cent; 2013 was a same as 2016, and rates for 2014 and 2015 were 3.3 per cent and 3.02 per cent, respectively, for comparison.
Various supervision departments are barbarous for their dispassionate attitudes towards matters of open welfare, be it health or education. In some provinces, generally Sindh, a supervision is scandalous for a impromptu changes in examination dates and schedules — for example, postponing dental or medical exams, for that possibilities have been scheming months in advance, usually a day before a creatively scheduled date, and that, too, usually a night before. Using a above contribution as precaution, a low numbers for CSS should have been investigated years ago when they initial began presenting themselves. The hopefuls who have put blood, persperate and tears into scheming for a examination should have a satisfactory possibility as we wish a review will reveal. It contingency also exhibit a education of a group and women who class these tests and order out any hurtful practices. We also wish this year’s repeat 2.09 per cent pass rate will be a usually tray for CSS claimant opening from here on out.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 26th, 2016.
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