The schools of Basic Education department will be conducting quarterly assessment of its students. For this, tests will be conducted from September 11 to 16. It will be based on target/learning outcomes achieved through Saral App. The level of knowledge in language and mathematics of students from classes I to V and that of mathematics and science subjects of students from classes VI to VIII will be tested. The printing of question papers and OMR sheets for evaluation is being done by the state project office through GeM portal. The selected printers will supply question papers and OMR sheets in the districts and later the same will be taken to schools.
For students of classes I to III one question paper will be provided for every five children. Question papers will be given to every student from class IV to VIII. The responsibility of conducting the examination with integrity will be of the basic education officer (BEO), block education officer and district coordinator (Training).
According to BSA, Prayagraj, Praveen Kumar Tiwari, the teachers will ask questions from the question paper to evaluate students of classes I to III in the form of an interview. On receiving the answer, they fill the OMR sheet themselves with a black ball pen. If there is no answer, the circles will be kept blank. After this the OMR sheet will be scanned through the Saral app. The duration of the exam will be one hour 30 minutes. The teachers will have to complete the scanning process within an hour. Likewise, for the evaluation of students of class IV to VIII, the OMR sheet will be filled by the students themselves. They have to explain it properly so that they do not make mistakes. Every student will also have to fill a nine-digit student ID.
RECRUITMENT EXAM: As many as 441 candidates will compete for each of the 1,876 sub-inspector posts in Delhi Police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) such as the BSF, CISF, CRPF, ITBP and SSB in the Sub-Inspector (SI) recruitment examination-2023 being conducted by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC).
The information pertains to information shared by SSC to a Right to Information (RTI). The SSC had sought online applications from candidates aged 20 to 25 till August 15 for the post of sub-inspector (S-I) recruitment examination-2023. The first phase of the computer-based examination is proposed to be held in October. According to the SSC, 8,27,602 candidates have applied for the posts. However, the Commission didn’t specify how many applications have been received from UP and Bihar (the central region). For recruitments to 4,300 posts in 2022, 1,75,329 candidates had applied from the central region.
The examination will consist of Paper-I (general intelligence and reasoning, general knowledge and general awareness, quantitative aptitude and English comprehension) and Physical Standard Test (PST)/ Physical Endurance Test (PET); Paper-II (English language and comprehension) and Detailed Medical Examination (DME).
There are 1,37,213 applicants in the unreserved category, 3,04,761 in Other Backward Classes (OBC), and 63,163 in the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category.
Meanwhile, SSC (Central Region) has commenced the Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) recruitment exam-2023 at 96 centres in 20 cities of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, from Friday. Rahul Sachan, regional officer, SSC (central region), said that the exam will be conducted from September 1 to 14.