The commission issued a final answer key on Friday evening for 150 questions for the subject General Study, University Education and Administration. In the answer key, the commission deleted six questions, while marking two options as correct in two questions, showed answer keys.
The two questions in the remaining 142 created controversies. The first question was related to the tenure of 22. nd. Law Commission. For this question, the options were three, four, five and six years. Of those not any one was correct as the law commission recently got extension to have tenure of 4.5 years. But the MPPSC considered the option of three years as correct in the answer key. Similarly, the other question related to state jurisdiction of Raja Shankar Shah University. There were four options- first (Chhindwara, Hoshangabad, Shivni), second (Chhindwara, Shivni, Betul), third (Chhindwara, Betul, Harda) and fourth (not any one of them). The MPPSC considered option B as correct.
The university act showed that option fourth was correct. A student Nirbhay Singh said, “Because of such goof ups, many student selections get affected posing uncertainty over their future.” Singh slipped to the provisional list in SSE-2022 prelims results because of a similar issue in the final answer key. MPPSC OSD R Pancbhai told TOI, “The matter has come before MPPSC. The examination controller and other officials are discussing it. In case there requires any change in answer key, the commission will do it but after going through due process.”
Further, the commission had to strike off 53 questions from eight examinations conducted prior to this because of controversies, and other issues in the last two years, showed records.