Indian state civil service exam paper plagiarized from Pakistani website

The Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) exam was recently held in India and it has already been marred with controversy. It has been reported that the exam paper which was given to the participants was copied from a Pakistani website.

More than half the questions on the exam were copied from www.cssforum.pk, which is a resource website for civil services examinations in Pakistan. The discovery was made after the exam-takers thought that the exam questions depicted another country’s content. Upon searching online, they found out that the questions had been copied from a Pakistani website.

The APPSC examinations also lifted questions from the 2008 Union Public Service Commission exams but without proper options to choose from.

Almost 90% of the sociology questions were allegedly taken from an online discussion forum. The veterinary paper too had 60 questions taken from an online question bank Vetscan.

“Some of the questions in general studies, sociology and political science were in the context of a foreign country. We cross-checked and found they were straight out of the Pakistani resource site,” said a candidate Tapi Omo.

“As most of the question papers of the examination were photocopied and some were also tampered with, we cannot deny the possibility of a leak. Moreover, too much copy-pasting has been done while setting up the papers, which is illegal,” Nani Bath, member of a steering committee formed to demand a re-examination of the prelims, said.

Bath also said that the current exam will not be considered and that the APPSC has been given a deadline of three months to conduct the tests again.

This is not the first time that APPSC has been embroiled in a controversy of this nature. In 2015, it dismissed four officials after a paper was leaked before the exams.

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