West Bengal School Service Commission will upload on its website academic scores of candidates for teaching jobs at the upper primary level (Class VI to VIII), in compliance with a high court order on September 30. The academic score of a candidate — which is factored in, along with the marks in the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET), while preparing the merit list — is based on his or her performance at various levels such as secondary, higher secondary and graduation.
The commission will upload the academic scores of the candidates who wrote the TET in 2016 and have since been interviewed so they can verify whether they were allotted marks based on the approved formula to calculate the academic score.
Bobita Sarkar, who was recruited as a teacher in a government-aided school in place of the daughter of former minister Paresh Adhikary following complaints of irregularities in appointment, had in January moved the high court over an alleged discrepancy in the academic score allotted to her by the commission.
A commission official said that once the details are uploaded, the candidates could see for themselves whether they were allotted academic scores accurately. According to the rules uploaded on the commission’s website, a candidate at the upper primary level is to be recruited based on his or her performance in the TET, academic score and the personality test.
“Once the academic scores are uploaded, the candidates will get to know the marks allotted to them based on their performance in Madhyamik or equivalent, HS exams or equivalent, bachelor’s, professional qualification, and 4-year bachelor’s in elementary education,” said WBSSC chairperson Siddhartha Majumdar.
“The candidates can themselves check whether they have been accurately marked based on the computational model, which has been uploaded, too, on the commission’s website.” The proportionate scores to be allotted if a candidate scores below 60 per cent has also been uploaded.
The commission’s chairperson said they had recommended to the education department that candidates who would write the selection test at the secondary level (Class IX and X) be allowed to take a copy of the OMR sheet home.