{"id":40847,"date":"2018-08-15T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=40847"},"modified":"2018-08-15T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:12:14","slug":"show-us-our-marks-and-cut-off-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/08\/15\/show-us-our-marks-and-cut-off-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Show us our marks and cut- off marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nI appeared APPSCCE (prelims) 2018 with Geography optional and I have tallied my score with all the possible sources and it is around 247.75\/400 (61%) \u2013 after deducting negative marks, also I considered negative marks for all the FIVE WRONG QUESTIONS of my optional paper and ONE WRONG QUESTION of GS.<br \/>\nYes, I did mark my OMR very carefully and cross checked it twice \u2013 as I had learned my lesson from my last year UPSC which I missed by 0.66 marks due to my callousness in OMR marking.<br \/>\nI am not quibbling about the \u201ccopy pasting\u201d or the \u201cout of syllabus\u201d remarks of the Geography paper. Unless there is a reform of the examination process itself this thing will happen every time.<br \/>\nMy only concern is that there are some candidates like me who were expecting to qualify \u2013 getting around 55 % to 60 % after tallying their marks \u2013 but couldn\u2019t. All I am requesting is for APPSC to declare the cut off marks and our scores at APPSCCE (prelims) 2018 for which we had submitted our applications to APPSC and put our concern at rest. There is a route via RTI Act but I know it will end up in court for which we don\u2019t have time or the energy.<br \/>\nAs for the examination process, I think it\u2019s time to remove optional subjects in prelims and introduce aptitude paper instead (every state has amended their PSC examination pattern taking a cue from the UPSC pattern). Optional subjects have too much subjectivity \u2013 like allegation of one optional being too easy or tough and also there is a huge chance of some mistakes in one or more optional papers. Also, papers common for all would be economical since it can be delegated to a single agency to set the common papers which in turn will bring in more accountability since the cost of making mistakes in those common papers is very high.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A candidate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, I appeared APPSCCE (prelims) 2018 with Geography optional and I have tallied my score with all the possible sources and it is around 247.75\/400 (61%) \u2013 after deducting negative marks, also I considered negative marks for all the FIVE WRONG QUESTIONS of my optional paper and ONE WRONG QUESTION of GS. Yes, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}