UPSC Civil Service Exam-Supreme Court refuses to postpone UPSC preliminary examination

Supreme Court refuses to postpone UPSC preliminary examination

The Supreme Court has refused to postpone the Union Public Service Commission's, UPSC, preliminary examination. The examination will take place tomorrow. The Apex Court said, while dismissing the plea of a civil services aspirant that nine lakh students are ready to appear in the exam and it cannot be postponed. The Court told the petitioner that he has only raised questions on comprehension part that has already been removed and the defect has been remedied.

Following protests by a section of UPSC aspirants over English Comprehension test in the Preliminary Examination of the UPSC, the Centre had recently decided to remove the questions of English languages in the CSAT.

Later, UPSC came out with the decision asking candidates to leave the questions unanswered during the CSAT examination as the section will not have any bearing on the merit list due to non-evaluation.