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Some Group-II candidates find paper tough

The New Indian Express Hyderabad

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December 16, 2024

THE day-one of the Group-II exam was conducted successfully at 1,386 centres in all the 33 districts across the state on Sunday.

- AARTI KASHYAP @Hyderabad

Some Group-II candidates find paper tough

The day-one had paper-I of General Studies and General Abilities and paper-II of History, Polity and Society scheduled in two sessions - forenoon from 10 AM to 12:30 PM and afternoon from 3 PM to 5:30 PM, respectively.

The exam was conducted in MCQ pattern with unique OMR answer sheets for each candidate. Each paper was of 150 marks, with a total of 150 questions and 1/4th negative marking for a wrong answer.

Candidates said that they found the Paper-I tougher than Paper-II due to the vast topics on which the questions were asked.

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