Candidate gets 101.66 marks out of 100 in Madhya Pradesh Recruitment Test, officials say…

Protesting job seekers handed over a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav.

New Delhi: Protests erupted in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore after a candidate received 101.66 marks out of the total 100 in Van and Jail Recruitment Test 2023. It happened due to the adoption of “normalisation” process in a Madhya Pradesh government recruitment examination, due to which job aspirants staged a demonstration and raised questions over the entire process.

The protesting job aspirants alleged fraud in the recruitment examination and demanded a fair inquiry.

What is Normalisation?

Normalisation is a process for ensuring students are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged by the difficulty of papers they write. The process involves revising the score of a student in a way that it becomes comparable with the score of another. This becomes necessary when an examination of the same subject is held in multiple sessions, each with a different paper.

On Monday, December 17, some protesting job seekers congregated in front of the district collector’s office and handed over a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav to an officer.

The memorandum said that in the joint recruitment examination 2023 (Van and Jail Recruitment Test 2023) of forest and jail departments, a candidate scored 101.66 marks out of total 100 and topped the selection list.

The result of the examination, conducted by the Bhopal-headquartered Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board, was declared on December 13.

After the announcement of the result, the board clarified the “process of normalisation” has been adopted in the recruitment examination as per rules, because of which candidates can get more than full marks (100) and less than zero.