Chennai: Annamalai, founder of the ‘We The Leaders’ organisation, has raised concerns over the results of the assistant professor recruitment exam conducted to fill vacancies in Tamil Nadu government arts and science colleges.
In a statement, he said the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) held the competitive exam on December 27, 2025 for 2,708 assistant professor posts across 48 subjects, with around 42,000 candidates appearing. The results, released on June 25, 2026, have triggered doubts and confusion among aspirants, he alleged.
He pointed to wide variations between the 150-mark subject paper and the 50-mark descriptive component. As examples, he cited a Tamil subject candidate who scored 111/150 but received 0 in the descriptive test, a Computer Science candidate with 107/150 who got 1/50, and a Physics candidate with 54/150 who secured 49/50.
According to him, similar patterns were seen in 43 subjects, where higher subject scores were followed by very low descriptive marks and vice versa. He also questioned how decimal marks such as 8.25 and 24.75 were awarded in the descriptive evaluation, and claimed the inconsistencies led to rank shifts by several hundred places, raising transparency and credibility concerns.
Annamalai urged the state government to subject the descriptive evaluation method to scrutiny and to conduct a complete re-evaluation of the exam. He also noted that a 2024 government order spoke of filling 4,000 posts, while the exam covered only 2,708, and said the Madras High Court had directed that all 4,000 posts be filled within six months, calling for immediate action to fill the remaining vacancies.
