Editor,
This is in reference to the letter titled ‘Ensure fairness’, published in your readers’ forum regarding the APPSC Common Junior Engineer (JE) Recruitment Examination-2026.
While concerns about fairness are understandable, the demand for normalisation between two different engineering streams may not be appropriate in this case. In the present recruitment, a total of 301 posts have been advertised, of which 235 posts are exclusively reserved for civil engineering candidates, while only 66 posts are open to both civil and agricultural engineering candidates. Considering this structure, applying normalisation between different disciplines could create further complications and raise questions about transparency.
It is also worth recalling that during the RWD JE recruitment in 2022 for 63 posts, no moderation or normalisation was applied. The results were declared purely on the basis of marks obtained, and the process was accepted as fair and merit-based.
Furthermore, agricultural engineering candidates appeared for the examination based on the syllabus officially prescribed in the 2025 advertisement. Performance in an examination depends on preparation and understanding of the syllabus, and higher marks do not necessarily imply that the question paper was easier for one group than another.
Therefore, introducing normalisation after the examination may create unnecessary controversy and could undermine the principle of merit. The most transparent and just approach would be to declare the JE results purely on the basis of marks obtained in the examination.
We sincerely hope that the APPSC will uphold fairness, transparency, and merit while declaring the final results.
Agricultural
engineering candidates
JE Common
Examination-2026