{"id":4978,"date":"2014-07-22T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2014-07-22T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T05:37:20","slug":"ssc-exam-paper-asks-tallest-deepika-katrina-huma-preity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/ssc-exam-paper-asks-tallest-deepika-katrina-huma-preity\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Exam Paper Asks &#8211; Who is \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cTallest\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d- Deepika, Katrina, Huma or Preity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sscexam.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"SSC Exam Paper Asks - Who is \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cTallest\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d- Deepika, Katrina, Huma or Preity!\" alt=\"SSC Exam Paper Asks - Who is \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cTallest\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d- Deepika, Katrina, Huma or Preity!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sscexam.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>The SSC, or the Staff Selection Commission, which runs an exam to make appointments in central ministries and other government departments, has readily apologised for a question paper that asked candidates which Bollywood actress was the tallest and gave a multiple choice of 4 answers<\/p>\n<p>The question in topic on Bollywood, one with multiple choice selections, rested between a question on this year&#8217;s Lok Sabha elections and another question on the month in which Valentine&#8217;s Day is celebrated. The applicants were asked to select the name of the actress who was &#8220;tallest in height&#8221; amongst the given options of a) Huma Qureshi, b) Katrina Kaif, c) Deepika Padukone and d) Preity Zinta.<\/p>\n<p>Not just this blunder, but another section of the paper tested the deductive reasoning of candidates with the bizarre statement- &#8220;All women are cats, and all cats are rats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An enraged Women&#8217;s Commission in Kerala has rightly demanded an explanation for what is being severely criticised as a &#8220;gender insensitive&#8221; question paper for the combined graduate level examination.<\/p>\n<p>SSC chairman A Bhattacharya said in a statement yesterday, &#8220;It is abominable, improper, substandard&#8230; and we are very upset and deeply sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bhattacharya said no one at the SSC had set the question paper. Few local teachers were appointed to set a bank of questions and a panel of experts chose from these to set a final paper, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The SSC has agreed to the demands of the Women&#8217;s Commission that the 2 controversial questions not be considered for evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SSC, or the Staff Selection Commission, which runs an exam to make appointments in central ministries and other government departments, has readily apologised for a question paper that asked candidates which Bollywood actress was the tallest and gave a multiple choice of 4 answers The question in topic on Bollywood, one with multiple choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}