The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) has proposed a significant change in the examination process for government job recruitments across various departments in the state. Going forward,
APPSC plans to conduct the preliminary exam only if the number of applications received exceeds 200 times the number of posts notified, as per reports.
For instance, if a notification is issued for 100 posts, a preliminary (prelims) exam will be held only if more than 20,000 applications are received. Otherwise, the commission may directly conduct a single-stage recruitment process or the mains exam.
Currently, APPSC conducts both prelims and mains exams if the number of applications crosses 25,000, regardless of the number of vacancies. However, the Commission believes this leads to unnecessary expenditure and wastage of time. As a result, it has proposed this new filtering system to the state government. If approved, many APPSC recruitments may be conducted with just one exam instead of two.
