CSC: No limit for taking civil service exams
FAILED the civil service exams four times already? Not to worry!
The old adage “Try and try until you succeed” now applies. You are now welcome to take it over and over again until you pass.
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has scrapped the original policy of limiting exam takers to only up to four failed times.
Senior Personnel Specialist Romeo Nabua of the CSC Lingayen field office said under the new policy, those who failed an examination for either career professional or sub-professional can take it again with only one condition: not within three months after the last exam.
Nabua reiterated this during the KBP Forum at the Philippine Information Agency.
He also clarified that there are no more prescribed educational qualifications for applicants, unlike in the previous policy requiring at least a bachelor’s degree for career professional and at least two years’ college for the sub-professional.
The minimum requirement today is for an applicant to be 18 years old at the time of application.
The next scheduled exam is on October 16, with the deadline for filing of application on September 1.
The Dagupan City National High School and the Lyceum-Northwestern University are being eyed for the October exams.
Applicants should file their applications personally at the CSC field offices in Lingayen and Urdaneta City.
REQUIREMENTS
Nabua advised applicants to bring with them a valid identification card with picture, signature of the bearer as well as the head of the office such as in ID cards issued by the Government Service Insurance System, Social Security System, office ID, and driver’s license.
Also required are four copies of 1 ½ x 2 pictures with name tag. The photos and the name tag should not be digitally-enhanced, he stressed.
Examination fee is P900 for either exam. Passing grade is 80 percent.
Meanwhile, Nabua lamented the low passing rate of examinees in the region based on the last exam in May.
Only 603 passed among the 5,021 examinees, or 12 percent, for the career professional exam; and 290 of the 1,851, or 16 percent, for the sub-professional level.
Nabua urged applicants not to simply rely on stock knowledge and prepare for the exam by reviewing. (DOS/PIA Pangasinan)
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