UPSC Allows Withdrawal Of Applications – Free PDF Download

The Decision

• The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has for the first time introduced the facility of withdrawing applications by candidates who do not wish to appear for the Civil Services exam.
• The preliminary examination for 2020 is scheduled to be held on 31 May.

When can one withdraw your application?

• The Commission has provided the withdrawal facility from 12-03-2020 to 18-03-2020 to those candidates who do not want to appear at examination.
• Once application is withdrawn by the candidate, it will not be revived in future.
• UPSC has no provision to refund any fee amount paid by candidates so even in case of successful withdrawn of application the fees will not be refunded.

Number of Attempts

• At present, general category candidates are allowed six attempts.
• OBC candidates is 9 times or 35 years of age.
• SC/ST candidates can attempt the exam till the age of 37 years.
• The attempts, however, are counted only when a candidate appears for the preliminary examination.

Why this decision was taken?

• To ease pressure on the UPSC’s resources.
• To prevent Waste of energy and resources
• Around 10 lakh apply for the exam but only 5 lakh actually appear for it.
• But the commission has to prepare for all the 10 lakh candidates
• The commission has to book venues, print paper, hire invigilators and ship the documents for all the 10 lakh applicants .

• If a candidate has not withdrawn the application and not appeared in the exam, will that be counted as an attempt?
• NO

Will this measure work?

• Unless there is a penalty or a disincentive to apply for the exam without the intention of actually taking it, such a provision to withdraw applications is not likely to be an active deterrent
• A lot of people decide to not take the exam just days or weeks before the preliminary exam

Disincentive?

• UPSC had earlier suggested to the government to treat an application to the CSE exam as an attempt itself.
• The commission had felt that since candidates can only make a limited number of attempts, they would make sure they do not apply for the exam if they are not fully prepared.
• However, expecting that such a move would upset lakh of candidates who aspire to become civil servants, the government had turned down the proposal last year.

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