SSC issues notice warning students to refrain from exam malpractices

NEW DELHI: The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has issued a notice on April 19, 2022, regarding the malpractices in examinations conducted by SSC, and said that the commission will take disciplinary and legal action against such individuals involved in exam malpractices such as leaking or possessing unauthorised test content.

According to SSC, "disclosing, publishing, reproducing, transmitting, storing or facilitating transmission and storage of test contents" in any form will be considered exam misconduct, and will be disqualified from writing the SSC exam.

"The Commission has time & again brought to the notice of candidates and other stakeholders that anyone found to be disclosing, publishing, reproducing, transmitting, storing or facilitating transmission and storage of test contents in any form or any information therein in whole or part thereof or by any means i.e., verbal or written, electronic or mechanical or taking away the rough papers supplied in the exam centre or found to be in unauthorized possession of test content will be considered as serious misconduct and will be debarred-disqualified from exam," said the notice released by SSC.

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The commission also informed that malpractices in the SSC exam will also be reported to the police if such a situation arises. It further said that candidates who create any kind of obstruction during the exam will face cancellation of the candidature. According to SSC, there is a possibility that such candidates may be debarred from the future exams conducted by SSC, and legal proceedings could be initiated against the candidate.

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