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Candidate mixes up exam centers and misses Turkey’s civil service test

From Cumhuriyet · () Turkish

Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

News Official statement Outcome reported
  • Turkey’s General Ability and General Culture session of the Public Personnel Selection Examination began at 10:15 a.m. across 145 centers, with 1.708 million applicants.
  • In Avcılar, a candidate entered the wrong school after failing to check the address on the admission document.
  • Officials removed the candidate from the building, but the doors at the correct school had already closed.

A candidate in Istanbul’s Avcılar district arrived at the wrong school for Turkey’s Public Personnel Selection Examination and ultimately left without taking the test.

The candidate entered Sabancı 50th Year İnsa Anatolian High School, where officials discovered during an identity check that the exam should take place at the nearby Abdulkadir Uztürk Middle School. Officials escorted the candidate first from the exam room and then from the building.

By the time the candidate reached the correct school, its doors had closed. The candidate had missed the entrance time and could not sit the exam.

The General Ability and General Culture session began at 10:15 a.m. across 145 centers in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The examination had attracted 1.708 million applicants. Under instructions from the ÖSYM, building entrances closed at 10 a.m.

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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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