Hyderabad: Who is the director of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story? What is the nick name for Usain Bolt? Apart from these, the other interesting questions that were asked in the Group-2 written exam held on Friday across the state were about Rajnikanth’s latest mavie Kabali, the popular name of the Bengal movie industry and Telangana’s famous food recipes like Sakinalu, Uppudi Pindi.
The attendance was 65 per cent out of the total 7.9 lakh candidates who applied for the test. While Warangal, Karimnagar and Nizamabad recorded attendance of more than 70 per cent, the newly created Kumaram Bheem-Asifabad district witnessed a poor turnout (just nine per cent).
Meanwhile late-comers, who reached centres after 10 am for the paper-1 held in the morning, were not allowed. This problem was evident in a few engineering colleges located on the outskirts of the GHMC region.
Due to technical reasons, biometric data of only 60 per cent of the candidates was collected. TSPSC secretary Ms Parvathi Subramanian, in a press release, said that data of the other candidates would be taken on November 13, when papers-3 and 4 would be conducted.
In some centres, due to oversight on the part of invigilators, there was a mismatch of the question booklet number and bar code number on the OMR sheet, leading to confusion among candidates. However, Ms Subramanian clarified that such candidates need not worry about valuation. A committee has been tasked with the responsibility of looking into the issue to ensure no injustice is done, she said.
Dr Riyaz, expert in competitive exams, stated that candidates who regularly read newspapers and who followed current affairs would not have had difficulties in answering papers 1 and 2. But for bookworms, who studies within a boundary, Friday’s exam would have been tough, he said.
