By Fernan Angeles
AMID a continuing pandemic scare comes the need for the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to find ways to shift its government eligibility exams online.
“We need to restructure our pen-and-paper test ,” CSC Commissioner Aileen Lizada said in a Laging Handa public briefing adding that “In transition, hahanap po ng paraan how to bridge the gap going to online,” she added.
At least 290,000 people are supposed to take the CSC pen-and-paper test in March, which was reset to 2021 due to the pandemic. The CSC has canceled all other written career service examinations for the rest of the year.
The coronavirus pandemic as of Tuesday has sickened at least 326,833 people in the Philippines, which has been under varying degrees of lockdown since March.