A critical analysis of the English language questions of BCS examination

Abstract

Job examinations are a valuable part of a person’s career. It shows his/her knowledge and skill and helps the examiners to select the best candidates. As a result, numerous researches have been done to improve the quality of this crucial examination all over the world. Bangladesh is a developing country with lots of possibilities and manpower. It is obvious that the job examination of our country will be highly competitive and tricky. As English is our second language, we see inclusion of this sector in the question paper. Examiners included English in the question to judge candidates’ knowledge and skill over this language. But the question does not seem to fulfill the goals it is supposed to. Most of the questions are memory and grammar based which only shows us the memorizing power of a candidate. Clearly the English language part of the question is not fulfilling its aim properly. In this paper, I will review one of the most demanding job examination English questions of Bangladesh which is known as BCS examination and analyze them on the basis of characteristics of the test. I will review the English language part of the question paper only. I will also conduct research on a few participants and who will be sharing their thoughts on the quality of our job examination and how it can be improved.