Editorial Policy
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This page says what you can expect from every exam page and every question on Pareeksha, and what to do when we get something wrong.
Who runs Pareeksha
Pareeksha (pareeksha.in) is an independent exam-practice website. It is not connected with APPSC, SLPRB, the School Education Department or any other recruiting body, and nothing here is an official notice.
Write to us at info@pareeksha.in
People responsible
- Content editor
- Decides what goes live, signs off answer-key corrections and owns this policy. Name to be published.
- Andhra Pradesh exams desk
- Reads every APPSC, SLPRB and DSC notice, keeps the exam pages and their "last verified" dates current. Name to be published.
- Telugu language reviewer
- A native Telugu speaker who reads a sample of every Telugu paper and fixes reported translation errors. Not yet appointed. Until this seat is filled, Telugu text has had automated checks only, not a native reader’s review.
Sources
- Exam dates, vacancies, eligibility and patterns come only from the official notice: the notification PDF, web note, errata or press note published by the recruiting body. News reports can tell us to look; they are never the source we quote.
- Each Andhra Pradesh exam page names the notice, its number and date, and the page and paragraph where each fact sits, with a link to the PDF.
- Previous-year questions keep their original wording and are keyed from the official final key, not from our own solving.
What the status labels mean
- Announced: the official notification is out.
- Expected (not yet notified): listed in a job calendar or announced in the news, but no notification yet.
- Postponed: the body that runs the exam has officially moved a date.
- Applications closed: the application window has ended. We switch to this automatically on the day after the last date.
"Last verified" and the change history
- "Last verified" is the date someone opened the official notices and compared the page with them. We only move that date when the check was actually done, so an older date is a sign to look at the notice yourself.
- When a notice changes a date, a vacancy count or a rule (an addendum, an errata, a detailed notification replacing a brief one), the page lists the change with its date under "What changed".
How questions are reviewed
- Structural checks: every question needs its options, a valid key, matching language versions and working images.
- Independent solving: a second solver answers the question without seeing the key. Any disagreement is checked by hand, never assumed either way.
- Hold on doubt: a paper that does not clear these checks stays switched off.
- Our standard is that a new paper clears these checks before it goes live. Some older papers were built before this standard; when a report shows one fell short, we fix it and re-check that paper.
How translations are reviewed
- Telugu and Hindi versions are produced from the English question with AI assistance, then checked automatically for missing text, numbers that do not match the English, and options in the wrong order.
- A native-speaker review of a sample from every Telugu paper is part of our standard. The Telugu reviewer’s seat is listed above with its current status.
- If a translation is wrong, report it with the "Wrong Telugu translation" reason. It goes to the Telugu desk.
Where we use AI
- We use AI models to draft practice questions, solutions and translations, and as the independent second solver described above.
- AI does not decide what is true about an exam. Dates, vacancies and rules are read from the official notice by a person, and answer-key disputes are settled by a person.
- We do not use AI to write fake reviews, fake participant counts or fake toppers.
Corrections
- Every question has a "Report" button during the test and on the results page. Pick the reason and, if you can, say which option you think is right and why.
- Each report gets an owner and a resolution target: 48 hours for a wrong key, wrong or missing options, or a wrong question; 7 days for wording, solution, image and translation fixes.
- When an answer key is corrected, every attempt on that question is re-scored, and every student whose score changed, and everyone who reported it, gets a notice in their Pareeksha inbox.
- If we check a report and find no error, we close it and keep a note of what was checked.
- Mistakes on an exam page (a date, a number, a rule) can be reported by email; we correct the page and add the change to its history.
Percentiles and ranks
- Everyone in a cohort sits the same fixed paper. Your percentile is the share of first attempts on that paper that scored below you.
- Only each student’s first attempt counts. Re-attempts are practice: they never enter the pool, the rank or the leaderboard.
- We print the number of first attempts behind a percentile once it reaches 100. Below that, a single extra student can move a percentile by several points, so treat it as a rough guide.