<p class="title">As many as 8,000 candidates appeared for an examination conducted for 80 posts of accountant in the Goa government, but all failed the test.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The candidates, all graduates, needed to secure a minimum of 50 marks out of the total 100 to qualify but none got it, a senior official said on condition of anonymity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Goa's director of accounts, in a notification issued on Tuesday, said none of the candidates, who appeared for the initial recruitment examination held on January 7 this year, secured the minimum qualifying marks required to get through.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Directorate of accounts had advertised 80 posts of an accountant in the common account cadre in October last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The five-hour examination included a 100 marks paper on English, general knowledge and accounts-related questions, the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The successful candidates were supposed to go through a round of oral interview before the final selection.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Aam Aadmi Party's Goa general secretary Pradeep Padgaonkar criticised the delay in announcement of results and said the failure of all 8,000 candidates is a sad commentary on the "collapse" of the state's education system.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is a "big shame" on the Goa University and the commerce colleges that produce these graduates, he added.</p>
<p class="title">As many as 8,000 candidates appeared for an examination conducted for 80 posts of accountant in the Goa government, but all failed the test.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The candidates, all graduates, needed to secure a minimum of 50 marks out of the total 100 to qualify but none got it, a senior official said on condition of anonymity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Goa's director of accounts, in a notification issued on Tuesday, said none of the candidates, who appeared for the initial recruitment examination held on January 7 this year, secured the minimum qualifying marks required to get through.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Directorate of accounts had advertised 80 posts of an accountant in the common account cadre in October last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The five-hour examination included a 100 marks paper on English, general knowledge and accounts-related questions, the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The successful candidates were supposed to go through a round of oral interview before the final selection.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Aam Aadmi Party's Goa general secretary Pradeep Padgaonkar criticised the delay in announcement of results and said the failure of all 8,000 candidates is a sad commentary on the "collapse" of the state's education system.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is a "big shame" on the Goa University and the commerce colleges that produce these graduates, he added.</p>