Doctors, engineers among 230 to clear screening for Goa civil services

PANAJI: Of the nearly 2,200 applicants, just 230, including doctors, dentists and engineers, have cleared the pre-screening for junior scale officers (JSO) conducted by the Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC).
GPSC chairman Jose Manual Noronha said the successful candidates will now have to answer the main computer-based recruitment test (CBRT) followed by a written exam and an interview.
Around 3,000 applications were received for the 15 positions advertised. As in the last pre-screening exam, this time too, 60% of the successful candidates were engineers while the other 40% belonged to the faculties of humanities, commerce science, medicine, dentistry, architecture, law and pharmacy.
Noronha said that at the earlier JSO pre-screening exam, a similar number of candidates had attempted the examination of which 101 were successful. The current figure shows a marked improvement in the performance of candidates.
The syllabus for the main CBRT comprises Indian history, environment and ecology, governance, innovation, geography, logical reasoning and analytical ability and English. The 75-mark examination consists of multiple choice type questions which must be completed within 75 minutes.
“There is no negative marking at these exams and every right answer is assigned one mark and a wrong answer zero marks. The results are declared when the examination ends and each candidate can see his/her score on the computer screen,” Noronha said This is the commission’s fifth attempt at selecting candidates for JSO positions. In the earlier attempts the commission could select one, two, six and seven candidates at the first, second , third and fourth attempts respectively.