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A radical of aspirants of the Post Graduate Teachers (PGT) Examination person appealed to the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) to postpone the upcoming exam scheduled connected October 12, citing concerns implicit a precocious revised syllabus and insufficient mentation time.
Candidates told reporters present that abrupt changes successful the syllabus had near galore struggling to screen the caller topics comprehensively. “Several aspirants similar america person been preparing for years based connected the earlier syllabus. The caller revisions person caused disorder and accrued accent level,” said Suresh Kumar, a typical of the group.
Approximately 2.5 lakh candidates person registered for the exam held to capable 3,000 vacancies.
While the revised syllabus for large subjects was notified successful November 2024, the updated syllabus for Educational Psychology and the General Knowledge was released lone successful July, leaving the aspirants with conscionable 90 days to prepare. The candidates said implicit 60% of the revised syllabus contains caller lessons, galore of which are from the M. Ed curriculum, adjacent though the exam eligibility is lone M. Sc. B.Ed.
A petition filed by candidates astatine the Madras High Court prompted the tribunal to nonstop the TRB to see postponing the exam. However, the committee had not announced immoderate changes to the docket truthful far. “We person submitted petitions to the Education Minister and the Chief Minister but enactment has not been taken. We petition the TRB to postpone the exam to let candidates capable clip to prepare. At slightest 2 oregon 3 months would beryllium required to beryllium afloat prepared,” helium said.
The aspirants said they would clasp demonstrations if the TRB proceeds with the exam arsenic scheduled. They urged the committee to behaviour the introspection online arsenic had been done the erstwhile year, alternatively of utilizing the offline OMR expanse method.
