SSC workshop to update question bank hit by rains

Chennai:

Heavy rains delayed Staff Selection Commission’s third workshop on English Language and Comprehension as only half of the participants turned up to update the question bank.

The workshop started nearly 30 minutes late and only half of the expected 40 professors turned up at the event.

A SSC official said that around 50 participants attended the preliminary workshop held earlier. The workshop was to update the question bank of SCC on English language and comprehension. The question banks on relevant subjects are updated periodically with the active involvement and cooperation of expert item writers from the respective academic fields.

“We will be validating the questions and accepting it during the workshop,” he said. Interestingly, Staff Selection Commission chairman N K Raghupathy could not make it to the workshop and deputy secretary of SSC T M Skaria was conducting the event.

“A total of 6,000 questions were to be screened, with each professor presenting 150 questions. Due to rains we would be getting only half of the questions. But then this will not affect the question bank as we expect other professors to join or mail in the remaining questions to be validated,” the SSC official said. However, he did not answer to the query on how many questions will be validated during the workshop.

Meanwhile, the number of candidates appeared, selected and nominated by southern region has been drastically increasing, according to a SSC release.

As per figures available, a total of 5.63 lakh applications were received till October this year against a total of 5.41 lakh last year (2011-12). Among those 4.13 lakh candidates were allowed to write exams against 3.74 lakh last year. The release also stated that last year a total of 4,687 candidates were selected and this year by October itself, a total of 2,702 candidates were selected from the southern region.