COMMON ELIGIBILITY TEST -pros and cons

 On 19 aug 2020 union cabinet has approved the creation of national recruitment agency (NRC) to conduct an online preliminary examination and shortlist candidates for group B and group C posts in central govt departments and public sector banks

 Secretary of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) C. Chandramouli said that to begin with, three of the over 20 Central government recruitment agencies would be brought under the NRA. 

It will replace only preliminary examinations of these 3 recruitment bodies RRB(Railway Recruitment Board) SSC(Staff Selection Commission) IBPS(Institute Of Banking and Personnel selection,the mains,tier 2 examination will be conducted separately by these three organisations

Benefits

The exam would be held online and centres would be set up in every district to increase access for candidates

“The CET score of the candidate shall be valid for a period of three years from the date of declaration of the result. The best of the valid scores shall be deemed to be the current score of the candidate. There shall be no restriction on the number of attempts to be taken by a candidate to appear in the CET subject to the upper age limit”

Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes candidates would be given a relaxation in the age limit as per the government’s policy

Cons

    Apart from various benefits the only problem is the syllabus, students are anxious to     know the syllabus of this  examination,because the pattern followed by these three   recruitment agencies is different     and the student preparing for any of these exams has to study the new syllabus according to the new recruitment agency,

and if student fails to pass CET the student will not be eligible for any recruitment conducted by these three agencies within the period.