400000 job seekers sit for forty-third BCS preliminary examination
As many as 400,000 folks vying for a authorities job are taking the forty third BCS preliminary examination.
The examination is being held at 369 centres in Dhaka, Chattogram, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barishal, Sylhet, Rangpur and Mymensingh division from 10 am to 12 pm Friday.
The candidates must reply to a number of selection questions price 200 marks on a variety of topics, together with Bengali Language and Literature, Bangladesh Affairs, Worldwide Affairs, Geography, Setting and Catastrophe Administration, Basic Science, Laptop and Data Know-how, Mathematical Logic, Psychological Ability, Morality and Values and Good Governance.
Unfavourable marking is relevant as every appropriate reply brings 1 mark whereas candidates will lose improper half a mark for every improper reply.
No books, baggage, watches, cellphones, calculators or any digital units are allowed within the examination corridor, mentioned the Public Service Fee.
Anybody carrying such objects will likely be disqualified for the present in addition to future exams of the PSC, it mentioned.
On Nov 30, final yr, the fee marketed for the forty-third BCS preliminary examination to nominate 1,814 authorities officers in numerous posts.
These embrace 550 posts typically cadre, 310 in the technical cadre, 843 typically schools of schooling cadre, 12 in academics coaching faculty and 99 in technical schooling cadre.
The submission of BCS preliminary examination functions began on Dec 30 final yr and the deadline was prolonged a number of instances because of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, ending on Jun 30 this yr.
As many as 435,190 job seekers utilized to attend the check this yr, the second highest within the historical past of the BCS exams.
