CSC warns: ‘Automatic passing of registered examinees’ fake news

THE COMMISSION ON CIVIL SERVICE warned the public to ignore “fake news” circulating online saying registered examinees of the March 15, 2020 career service examination are automatically deemed passed.

The fake news said: "Thus President Duterte announced last May 1, 2020 that all examinees automatically passed the said exam both professional level and sub-professional level. Congratulations examinees March 2020.

In a press statement Thursday, the CSC said it has not issued any directive to registered examinees of the March 15, 2020 CSE professional and sub-professional levels who did not take actual test.

The CSC made the clarification saying the “Career Service Examination (CSE) is a general ability test that serves as a basic gauge objectively designed to determine and support the merit and fitness of an individual for government career service.

“Such is principally founded on the provision of the 1987 Philippine Constitution that appointments in the civil service shall be made only according to merit and fitness to be determined, as far as practicable, and, except to positions which are policy-determining, primarily confidential or highly technical, by competitive examinations. 

“It is in this essence that civil service eligibility cannot be simply granted or given away without bases. Thus, the CSC has no existing policy on considering examinees of the Career Service Examination as “passed” by virtue of incidental factors or circumstances such as the COVID-19 pandemic.   

The CSC suspended, until further notice, the conduct of the 15 March 2020 CSE professional and sub-professional exams and no date for the rescheduling of the said test has been made to date.

The CSC said the original press release can be found at: http://csc.gov.ph/new-updates/1921-15-march-civil-service-exams-suspended.html

“For this matter, the CSC shall issue an advisory on the reset of the suspended 15 March 2020 CSE-PPT in due time. The CSC also advises the public to refer to its official website (csc.gov.ph), its main Facebook Page (fb.com/civilservicegovph), and its regional offices' Facebook Pages as sources of CSC-related information to avoid consuming and spreading fake news.”