Chandigarh: Are red blood cells in frogs nucleated, enucleated, trifid or bifid?
Don’t know? You’re not alone. A large majority of the 8.29 lakh candidates who appeared for an entrance exam for 5,500 male constable vacancies in the Haryana Police were stumped too.
The three-round entrance test, which began Sunday and will end Tuesday, was expected to be tough, but what nobody had bargained for was the level of competency that the Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC), which conducted the exam, had expected from candidates. The minimum qualification was for a candidate to have passed Class 12.
But some of them were so tough that the opposition Congress is now up in arms, and is challenging Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his cabinet to secure at least 33 per cent marks.
Questions on science, history, economics
The questions in the entrance test covered science, world history, economics and even technology.
Sample these questions:
Who published the newspaper Risorgimento?
a) Joseph Garibaldi
b) Joseph Mazzini
c) Victor Emmanuel –II
d) Count Di Cavour
A body with pores and canals in walls is present in:
a) Amelida
b) Annelida
c) Porifera
d) Ctenophora
Structure of XeF6 is:
a) Distorted octahedral
b) Square bipyramidal
c) Distorted square planar
d) Square planar
Consider the following statements about the World Trade Organisation:
The World Trade Organisation is the only global international organisation dealing with rules of trade between nations.
Afghanistan joined the WTO on 29th July as its 164th member.
a) Both statement i and ii are correct
b) The statement ii is correct
c) The statement i is correct
d) None of the above
The Reserve Bank has introduced banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi series since:
a) 1996
b) 1951
c) 1974
d) None of the above
Assimilation is a process of ……. in which the group acquires the memories, sentiments and attitudes of other groups:
a) Interpretation and coordination
b) Interpretation and facilitation
c) Interpretation and fusion
d) Facilitation and integration
International Centre for Automotive Technology has developed a technology innovation platform called:
a) Knowledge integration for technology enrichment (KITE)
b) SPARROW
c) Automotive solution portal for industry research and education (ASPIRE)
d) None of these
‘CM and his cabinet should first pass the test’
The Congress has now raked up the issue, with party general secretary Randeep Surjewala holding a press conference in Chandigarh Monday, and demanding that CM Khattar, his cabinet and even the state’s Director General of Police try to solve the question paper and pass the test.
“There is a challenge from the youth of Haryana to the chief minister and his entire cabinet that they should sit together and manage to obtain 33 per cent marks in this police constable examination,” Surjewala said. “The truth remains that they will totally fail in this examination. Then, if this is not a cruel joke with the youth of Haryana, then what else is it?”
Surjewala said he had been contacted by a host of candidates who appeared for the examination and had pointed out that there were very few questions related to Haryana.
“The questions asked in the examination for police constable recruitment should be about questions related to Indian Penal Code, questions related to fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution, questions related to human rights, human attitude and social harmony. But questions pertaining to MA or PhD of Botany, Zoology, Sociology, International History, International General Knowledge, MSc Mathematics etc were asked,” he said.
The HSSC has, however, defended the paper. Its chairman Bhopal Singh admitted that the question papers are tough, but added that his organisation could do little given the number of candidates who appeared.
“When the number of posts are limited and the number of applicants is very large, we have to set a tough paper so that we are able to choose. This is also the reason that we had a tough Group D recruitment paper as well. Then too, the matter was highlighted,” Singh told ThePrint Monday.
“But when the results were declared, it is not that no one was able to clear the entrance test. There were people who passed. They were highly qualified, some were even PhDs. Much more qualified than needed in Group D. But then, we cannot stop people with the highest qualifications from appearing in exams,” he added.
“Also there is no provision that for a Haryana entrance test, we have to ask questions about Haryana only,” he insisted.
(Edited by Arun Prashanth)
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