Judicial Service Commission brings change to recruitment test system

The Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission’s (BJSC) has changed the test system for the recruitment of assistant judge and judicial magistrate.

Shahidul Islambdnews24.com
Published : 23 Feb 2016, 06:07 PM
Updated : 23 Feb 2016, 06:40 PM

The commission has amended the 2007 order on the judicial service recruitment examinations, adding conditions for clearing the written test and decreasing the preliminary test pass mark.

The new system will come into effect from the 10th BJSC Examination for recruitment of judges, commission Secretary Paresh Chandra Sharma told bdnews24.com on Tuesday.

He said the notice for the test will be published ‘very soon’.

According to the amended order, anyone who has cleared the preliminary test with 50 percent marks, instead of the previously required 55 percent, will now be able to sit for the written test.

Sharma said in the new system, 0.25 will be deducted for each wrong answer in the 100-mark multiple choice preliminary test.

That’s why the pass mark has been brought down, he added.

From now on, any candidate with less than 30 percent marks in any subject of the written test will be found ineligible.

The aspirants will now have to obtain 50 percent marks on average in the written test to qualify for the viva voce consisting of 100 marks.

The new order said the BJSC might raise the average pass mark ceiling for the written test, if necessary. A notice will have to be issued if the commission decides to do that.

From the 10th BJSC Examination, the candidates will have to sit for the written test on compulsory law subjects of five papers consisting of 500 marks.

They will also be required to sit for an optional law subject of one paper consisting of 100 marks.

 The compulsory general subject test of four papers will still be consisting of 400 marks.