Conducting online tests for recruitment in the State services in eight Indian languages successfully, the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) has created a new path in the online examination systems in the country.
Out of the eight languages, six are vernacular languages — Urdu, Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, and Bengali, apart from English.
And conducting all these examinations in just eight days was a huge challenge for the TSPSC, that too in a highly sensitive examination like the Teachers Recruitment Test (TRT) that saw 2,77,373 applications.
Forty-three examinations were conducted in 13 sessions online for the 8,792 posts to be filled while five exams were conducted in three sessions in the paper mode.
“It is also for the first time that a test in Hindi is being conducted online in a southern State,” TSPSC Chairman Ghanta Chakrapani said.
Public Service Commissions (PSCs) of some of the biggest states, including West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the country, have also not tried the computer-based test in vernacular languages, he said.
The challenge was not confined to the languages but conducting the subject papers in vernacular languages, given the constraints in translations for the online mode.
The TSPSC conducted the tests in mathematics, physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, and physical education, and all these are being conducted online for the first time.
Prof. Chakrapani said the TSPSC had taken to computer-based tests since it came into being after Telangana emerged as a new State and out of the 83 recruitment tests so far 90% of the tests had been conducted in the computer-based test mode only.
