UPSC ESE 2021: Students press for postponement of exam due to COVID 19

NEW DELHI: In wake of prevailing situation due to the second wave of COVID 19 pandemic, majority of students who are planning to appear for the UPSE Engineering Services exam have demanded postponement. The ESE 2021 exam is scheduled to be held on July 18. The students expressed their anguish on twitter as they believed that it would not be appropriate for them to appear for the ESE 2021 exam if they have not been vaccinated.

Today, the micro blogging site was buzzing with ‘#PostponeESE2021’. The primary aim of this campaign is to bring to the notice of the UPSC to take swift action with regard to deferring the exam. Earlier, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the UPSC had postponed the UPSC civil services prelims exam which was supposed to be held on June 28. In wake of the postponement of prominent exams that are conducted by the UPSC, the demand made by the students gained momentum as thousands of students called for postponing the ESE exam.

Students Demand postponement of UPSE ESE 2021 exam

UPSC ESE is one of the toughest and competitive exam in Engineering and students are already under immense mental pressure due to pandemic. We request the UPSC to be reasonable and postpone ESE.#PostponeESE2021@pmo @ShayarImran @1stIndiaNews @AamAadmiParty @aajtak @TheLallantop https://t.co/vZdBfpSc2M

— Er Asgar Ali ?? (@ali_gauri) June 10, 2021

#PostponeESE2021
Is this what you people call equality ? CSE got postponed and notification was released exactly before 45 days. But here we ESE aspirants have to beg for our rights.#PostponeESE2021 #UPSC

— puja yadav (@pujayad81514017) June 10, 2021

Some of the students have also asked the authorities to postpone the UPSE ESE exam as some of them are recovering from COVID 19.

Many students have suffered in this second wave of the pandemic. Give them some time to recover, and postpone ESE.#PostponeESE2021@DoPTGoI @narendramodi @aajtak @DrRPNishank @IndiaToday @ndtv @TheQuint @thewire_in @DrJitendraSingh @ArvindKejriwal @TimesNow @EduMinOfIndia

— Kundan (@bannaji_18) June 10, 2021

UPSC ESE Exam Pattern

According to the UPSE ESE exam, the prelims exam will be of total five hours wherein the candidates will have to appear in two papers. The first paper which will be of general studies and engineering aptitude is of two hours and maximum marks is 200 while paper 2 will of three hours and it would be 300 marks.

Candidates will have to answer multiple choice questions in the ESE 2021 exam. For every question , four options would be provided. In case the candidate answers the question incorrectly, then he would lose one third of the total marks allotted to that particular question. If he does not answer the question at all, then he would not lose any mark. However, if the candidate selects more than one option while answering in the ESE exam, then he would lose marks.

In the mains exam, there are two papers of three hours each and each question paper of ESE is of 300 marks each.

The ESE 2021 exam is likely to be held across 15 cities in different parts of India and approximately three lakh candidates appear for the exam.

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