Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 20: Aspirants for 10+2 Zoology lecturer posts today alleged irregularities in the recent recruitment conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission, claiming unusual scoring patterns and discrepancies between written and interview marks.
Addressing a press conference here, a spokesperson said the exam was conducted after a gap of 10 years and followed a two-tier format. “The written examination is of 100 marks and the viva is of 12 marks,” he said.
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The written test, held on 12 October 2025, required candidates to attempt 100 multiple-choice questions in two hours, with 0.25 negative marking for wrong answers. “Which makes it a time pressure and competitive test,” he said.
Describing the paper, the spokesperson said it included “around 25 statement-based questions” and “around 10 assertion-reasoning questions,” calling them “very tricky, conceptual and error-prone.” He added that experts consider it “humanly impossible” to achieve near-perfect scores in such exams.
However, he claimed that “8-10 candidates” scored above 95 marks, with some initially reaching 100 before answering key revisions. “The way pattern of marks were distributed was statistically and humanly unusual,” he said.
A total of 155 candidates were shortlisted for viva voce, conducted between 6 and 13 April 2026, with the final list published on 13 April.
The aspirants alleged a mismatch between written and interview performance. “There is a clear disparity between the written performance and interview performance,” the spokesperson said. He claimed that many top scorers in the written test received “bare minimum 5 or 6 marks” in the interview. “The candidates who performed the poorest, they were given 5 or 6 marks and the candidates who performed the best got 9.5 or 10 marks,” he said, questioning how “the majority of the top scorers had a bad day during the interview.” He added, “This cannot be a coincidence.”
The spokesperson said the aspirants had conducted a “personal and local level investigation” over the past week and shared their findings with authorities. “Now the responsibility lies on them. they will investigate this and reveal the truth,” he said.
The aspirants urged intervention by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and called for the selection list to be put on hold pending an inquiry.
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