Editor,
Through your esteemed daily, we would like to shed light on the other side of the spectrum on why the request for the deferment of APPSCCE-2024 preliminary examination is a valid request.
At the outset, we acknowledge that we understand the agony of ageing aspirants and their desire for earliest conducting of the most awaited and the most coveted exam of the state. But we are not asking for the exam to be postponed for months or indefinitely; neither is the request for giving us more time to prepare. But the request is that the timing of the preliminary examination scheduled is colliding with the semester exams of the university and affiliated colleges across the state, which follows a fixed academic calendar every year – and that the commission may reconsider and reschedule the preliminary exam on such date after the semester exams are over, at any time it thinks right. Had the commission considered these factors, there wouldn’t have been such an issue.
There’s a legal maxim, which goes: ubi jus ibi remedium. It translates to ‘where there is a right, there is a remedy’. The commission through its qualification criteria qualifies every graduate and final year student who meets the requisite age criterion to appear for the exam. This includes us, the UG final year students, postgraduate students pursuing masters, law, PG-diplomas, BEd, PhD and so on, along with the rest of the aspirants statewide.
On the other hand, by scheduling the prelims for 15 December, we are being deprived of a fair chance of appearing for the coveted exam, as we will already be undergoing semester exams (entire month of December), and also it is certain that not everyone of us will get an exam centre in the town where our college is situated, causing logistics problems. This is causing us undue pressure and stress and it might ultimately lead us to choose one from the two exams. Since we are being deprived of our right to a fair and a level playing exam, we are asking the commission to remedy it through postponement of around 20-25 days. And we don’t think such a request is unfair or invalid.
Now, if any person or group feels that such request for postponement deprives their right with regard to this exam, they are free to present their side too and let the commission decide accordingly.
Aggrieved aspirants