• archaic, not fit for 21st century
  • no psychological evaluation for violence, criminal mindedness or self harm for services like IPS
    • army recruitment has psycho analysis to spot such red flags
  • needs more comprehensive evaluation
    • World Bank recruitment requires spending 1 - 2 days with the candidate to judge him on many parameters
  • no edu qualifications prescribed for members of PSC
    • they are often manned by former civil servants
      • lack of comprehensiveness in evaluation of candidates
  • needs to move from eliminating unfit candidates to selecting best candidates
  • needs emphasis on judging candidates on multiple skills, incl. stress handling capacity, quick decision making etc
  • needs to leave one size fit all approach and focus on recruiting for different services based on different skill sets
  • PSC must improve coordination with training institutions to upgrade capability of recruits on specific fronts
  • govt has continuously ignored recommendations for PSC & discussions on ATR, Annual Reports, committee reports are extremely limited in legis
  • PSC overburdened with work
  • emergence of institutions like CVC has created overlapping with functions of UPSC

Literally made a lottery out of prelims exam πŸ˜” πŸ–οΈ

Don’t write this in exam