Modi Rojgar Do...SSC Exam and Job Vacancies

 Imagine that you appear for an entrance exam and that you score full marks in that exam. But, despite getting full marks, you do not qualify and you do not get selected. Something like this happened in our country in the recently published SSC CGL exam results.

Since the past few days, #modi_rozgar_do has been trending on number one on twitter, more than 20 lakh students and teachers are participating in this trend. So, what is the reason that lakhs of students are angry with the Modi government? and what does it have to do with the SSC exam results?

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) is an organisation that conducts several examinations to recruit staff for various posts in the various ministers and Departments of the Government of India. One of the major exams conducted by SSC is CGL: Combined Graduate Level Examinations and Every year, lakhs of students appear for this exam in the hopes of securing a respectable government job. You might have already heard about problems in the SSC CGL exams in the news earlier. Two years prior, the students were out on the roads protesting because there was a major paper leak in their examinations  and allegations of corruption were also leveled against their organization. But this time, it's a different issue. Coming to the present issue that the SSC CGL 2019 Tier exams were held on 15th, 16th and 18th November, 2020 and the results of these exams were declared on 19th Feb 2021. And soon after that, the #ModiRozgarDo campaign started.

WHY WAS THIS CAMPAIGN STARTED?

The student allege that there are irregularities in the marking process. The same exam of SSC CGL is conducted in multiple shifts on different days. specifically, this exam was conducted in three shifts-on 15th, 16th and 18th November, 2020 and the question paper are different on all three days. but eventually, all these students would be marked on the same ranking scale and selection would be done collectively amongst them But the problem is that there might be a variation in the difficulty levels of the papers on different days.

Assume that the students that appeared foe the exam on 15th Nov had an easy question paper but the paper for those appearing on 16th Nov slightly more difficult. Now, all these students need to be evaluate in the same list and same ranking scheme. How can this be done? To deal with this problem, the government came up with the solution of "normalization" for equalizing the results of candidates appearing for different papers on different days. After the marks of the students are calculated, there is a proper formula to "normalize" them which is used by SSC and the exact formula which is based on the average marks scored in a particular shift is given below through a link.

NOTICE:NORMALIZATION FORMULA FOR EVALUATION OF MARKS IN ONLINE EXAMINATION

LINK-https://dsssb.delhi.gov.in/sites/default/files/All-PDF/Normalization.pdf

For example, if the average marks scored by students in the first shift is 120 marks out of 200 and the average marks scored by students in the second shift is 100 marks out of 200 marks, then you can tell that paper of the second shift was more difficult in comparison with that of the first shift So, the marks will be normalized and marks will be added or subtracted to the score obtained by the students to compensate for the varying difficult levels. Since the average marks scored by students in the second shift was lesser, this means that the paper in the second shift was more difficult so extra marks would be added to the score of these students in order to equalize scores.

what happened is that in the exam shifts on the 15th and 16th Nov, 2020-the paper had normal difficult level questions and the question in the shift on 18th Nov, 2020, however, were extremely easy as alleged by the students and the teachers alike. In such a scenario, when the difficulty levels vary so greatly, the marks of the students, after normalization, get altered drastically. As alleged by the students-As much as 100 marks have been added for the students that appeared on 15th/16th and at the same time around 50-60 marks of the students that appeared on 18th have been deducted. In one instance, it is also alleged that a student got 200/200 but after his marks were normalized, marks were deducted and he didn't manage to clear the final cut off.

THE PROBLEM THAT THE STUDENT HAS TO FACE BY SSC 

• Also, many people question the need for tier 2 exams to be held in different shifts on different days. why can't the exam be conducted on the same day? and it is not that this is not possible because SSC holds the pre exam for around 4 lakhs students per day and the number of student in Tier 2 is far lesser that that-so this option is indeed possible but apparently, this is not the only issue with SSC, the students point out more glaring issue regarding the functioning of SSC with respect to irregularities.
•  Another issue raised by students is that the results are not declared on time by SSC, In several cases, the exams were conducted in 2018 but their results have not been declared even until now in 2021.
•  Third issue raised by the students is that-there is no waiting list in SSC, Assume that there are 10,000 vacancies for government jobs. students appear for the exams and some clear the exam and the top 10,000 students are awarded the government jobs but some out of those 10,000 students do not want to take up the job and opt for something else instead So, a vacancy arises-for that, generally, a waiting list is issued and the students that are next in rank are awarded that vacant job position But so such provision has been put in place by the government in this case.
•  As for the fourth problem-The students allege corruption charge on the SSC because as per the students, if there is any error in the questions in the paper, the students can challenge this error to pay Rs. 100 per question/answer. many students and teachers allege that SSC has turned this into a money minting business. for example, there was as many as 11 such challenges that could be made in SSC CGL 2019-20 Tier 1 Exam and now, imagine more than 9 lakhs students appeared for this exam. Imagine how much money can be accumulated!
•  And finally, a fundamental problem raised by the students regarding SSc is that the number of vacancies keep dwindling year by year. The jobs are getting fewer in number. if you compare the vacancies today with that in 2013, then the total number of vacancies in SSC have almost halved!

 All of this in the backdrop of when the government promised so many jobs when Narendra Modi won the elections in 2014, this is why the #ModiRozgarDo was trending on Twitter. The unemployment problem can be seen becoming progressively worse. Some students and teachers even blame privatization that the government is undertaking recently.

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?

Some problems have extremely simple solutions but the government should have the intentions to fix things like Timely conduction of exams, timely declaration of results and timely posting and also Issuing a waiting list-all of this is not a huge deal. At the same time, the exams being conducted in different shifts should be conducted on the same day.

NOTICE : NORMALIZATION FORMULA FOR EVALUATION OF MARKS IN ONLINE EXAMINATION

NOTICE : NORMALIZATION FORMULA FOR EVALUATION OF MARKS IN ONLINE EXAMINATION

NOTICE : NORMALIZATION FORMULA FOR EVALUATION OF MARKS IN ONLINE EXAMINATION