Assistant professor recruitment candidates demand independent panel for re-evaluating papers

A section of aspirants who appeared for the assistant professor recruitment examination organised by the Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Recruitment Board (TRB) in December last year have demanded re-evaluation of their answer scripts by an independent panel of experts pointing to several discrepancies in the marking system.

At a media conference here on Monday, the aspirants, who did not want to be named, said the Higher Education Department should set up a panel of subject matter experts who have experience in assessment and pedagogy to re-evaluate the answer papers. The panel should also include a statistician, they demanded.