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Friday 30 November 2012

RTI on UPSC APF Exam 2012

No. of Applicant for APFC Exam (Categorywise)

Q1. Please furnish information on the total number of candidates who have applied for the post of Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner Exam 2012, including the breakup of candidates coming from SC/STs, OBCs, Women and handicapped.
UPSC replies
The break-up of total number of candidates applied for APFC Recruitment Test is as under:
SC39,624
ST11,328
OBC90,375
WOMEN58,651
HANDICAPPED3,311
GENERAL1,39,846

No. of Rejected Applications in APFC exam

Q2. Please furnish information on the total number of applications rejected for this exam, and the categories under which they were rejected.
UPSC replies: 2580 applications were rejected due to bad photo or bad signature or swapping of signature with photo or vice versa.

Answerkeys for APFC exam

Q3. Please provide the question paper and the official answer keys of the APFC exam 2012.
UPSC replies
Copy of the Question paper is enclosed. However, Answer Keys can be shared after the completion of recruitment process.

Wrong answer options for Jim Yong Kim questions

Q4. In the question #27 of Booklet “D” of APFC-2012 exam, all answer options are incorrect. Because according to the official websites of the respective organizations, the correct combination is as following
  1. Jim Yong Kim is the head of world Bank (A-1)
  2. Kamlesh Sharma is the Secretary General of Common Wealth.(B-2)
  3. Christine Lagarde is the MD of IMF (C-3)
  4. Catherine Day is the Secretary General of European Commission (D-4)
But no such answercode is provided in the given question. Therefore all the answers are incorrect. So, How will UPSC evaluate the answers of candidates, for this question?
UPSC replies: No information is available, on record, at present for disclosure.

Decision regarding Wrong answer in “D” booklet

Q5. Please provide a copy of the decision taken by the Commission, if any, on the answer key of question 27 of set “D” of the exam referred above.
UPSC replies: No information is available, on record, at present for disclosure.

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