Correction of Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Written Exam Passers... 47 Passers Switched

Announcement of Successful Candidates for Educational Administration and Librarian Positions Revised One Day Later
20 Previously Passed Candidates Disqualified, 27 Additional Candidates Accepted
Score Adjustments Due to Staff Error Entering Answers for No-Shows Caused Score Changes

On the 15th, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced the successful candidates for the local government official written exam but corrected it after one day. They disqualified 20 candidates by including the answer sheets of absentees and additionally passed 27 candidates. (Source: Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education website)

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education mistakenly passed 20 candidates who were not eligible for passing the local government official written exam and failed 27 candidates who should have passed, leading to a correction in the announcement of successful candidates.

On the 15th, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced that it would correct the '2021 Local Government Official Open (Career) Competitive Appointment Exam Written Test Pass Announcement'.

After the announcement of the successful candidates, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education confirmed that some successful candidates in the education administration and librarian categories had been switched and corrected the announcement within a day. Among the candidates, 20 who were initially marked as failed were changed to pass, and 27 additional candidates were newly passed.

The candidates' answer sheets are processed electronically through the Education Administration Information System, but the inclusion of absent candidates' answer sheets altered the passing score.

The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education explained, "Answer sheets of absent candidates, which should have been excluded, were mistakenly included by the person in charge, lowering the average score and increasing the standard deviation, causing changes in the adjusted scores."

For the local government official education administration and librarian categories, the second written exam consists of choosing 2 subjects out of 6. To compensate for difficulty differences between elective subjects, adjusted scores reflecting the average and standard deviation are applied. However, an issue occurred during the calculation of these adjusted scores, resulting in the switching of successful candidates.

The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education stated, "Taking this incident as an opportunity, we will conduct a thorough review of the entire local government official recruitment process, increase the current two-step verification process to three steps, expand the number of inspectors, and establish measures to prevent recurrence to ensure thorough management of recruitment."

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