To cope with a severe shortage of state employees, southern Ben Tre Province’s Home Department has raised the scores of 43 examinees who failed in the civil servant exam to qualify them.

Examinees making papers a civil servant examination in HCMC, Photo: Tuoi Tre

Nguyen Van Hieu, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, told Tuoi Tre that he had neither known about the issue nor directed the department’s Civil Servant Examination Council to do so. 

Although Ben Tre is short of civil servants, the council’s action was not acceptable, Hieu said. 

“The council must not raise the scores of any failed examinees and those who failed in this exam should try harder so that they can pass the next exam.” 

However, Hieu said he had ordered the council to re-grade the papers of those failed examinees to find out whether there was any mistake in the original grading.

Le Vinh Binh, Director of Ben Tre’s Home Department and Deputy Chairman of the Civil Servant Examination Council, told Tuoi Tre that the council had raised the scores of 43 examinees who had failed in one of the 5 subjects: English, computer science, general knowledge, professional knowledge and professional skills.

Their scores were under 50 on the scale of 100 and the council had raised them to 50 to make them qualified. 

Binh said Ben Tre needed to recruit 307 civil servants but the total number of test takers was only 200.

Source: Tuoi Tre