KARACHI, July 22: What type of general knowledge and Islamic education is being imparted to our students in our schools and colleges can be well assessed from the howlers in the written examinations which were conducted by Sindh Public Service Commission during year 2001.
These examinations were conducted by the SPSC to recruit qualified staff to meet the requirement of different departments, particularly education, health, excise and police. Although the number of aspirants against the advertised posts was many times more against the actual requirement, in almost all cases the few vacancies were not filled in one go due to poor standard of general knowledge and merit.
For example, against 519 posts of ASIs, over 5,000 candidates were in the run and for 110 vacancies of excise inspectors, some 7,800 aspirants were in the run, but these vacancies were not filled in the first run as six posts were left for which 3,240 candidates had applied.
In the same manner, against 38 posts of Mukhtarkars, there were 9,470 in the run.
In the same way against 3,800 vacancies of primary teachers, the commission received over 50,000 applications.
According to the report-2001 of the commission, some of the howlers include:
* Likewise, Rooh-ul-Amin was the President of Morocco.
* Saifullah is a lake in Balochistan.
* Bait-ul Mamoor is the name of sea port of Indonesia.
* Hateem was king of Sindh.
* Nazool-i-Vahi continued for 610 years.
* Aedipus Complex is historical building in the far-east.
* What/ who is a prodigal son? Mussolini was the Prodigal son of Hitler.
* Radium was discovered by Castro.
* Madam Curie brought about the Russian revolution.
* Yasser Arafat brought about the Russian revolution.
* Aedipus complex is the name of medicine.
* Fusion was a famous scientist.
* Fascism is the political party of Germany, led by Mussolini.
* Russian revolution was brought about by Nelson Mandela.
* Trojan Horse have made many scientific instruments.
* Aedipus Complex: who is expert in making complexes.
* Fascism is a useful scientific instrument.
* Syed Ahmed Shaheed fought against the cruel Mughal King Akber.
* Saifullah is name of instrument.
* Rizwan is Hindu-Muslim pact.
* Rooh-ul-Amin is the Secretary General of OIC.
* Oedipus Complex: in mathematics it is a complex equation.
* Oedipus Complex: it represents a complex among people who feel them-selves a patient of AlDs, after meeting, touching or talking with AIDS patients.
* Trojan Horse: a self-taught horse in the religion of Parsis. Likewise, in English language some of the interesting replies speak volumes about knowledge of candidates:
* Rapid change in inflammation makes prices rise.
* Short visit of Clinton has stuffed anguish in minds of Pakistanis.
* Pak-US relations: “Gone with the wind”.
* Fission: Fission is spend of money. Some people not afford in fission, because some people are poor.
* Fission: Fission world is used to concerned with peoples, specially women used many fission. Fission is very bad for money.
* The money is loose in the fission. Fission in interested are girls and women but male, female both like fission.
* Love, cough and truth cannot be hidden.
* India has spread lavish things in the minds of US establishment.
* Rise in prices: The rate of everything be in costly and it is unbearable to poor person when everything speak with sky.
* One M.A. in Economics defined GNP as the total value of the country’s grass i.e. green wealth.
