Dhaka, Jan. 14 -- The preliminary test for the 50th Bangladesh Civil Service examination is to be held on Friday, Jan 30. The Public Service Commission (PSC) announced that the exam will be held in eight divisional cities from 10am to noon that day.

The date was announced in a press release on Tuesday.

Although the exam starts at 10am, the commission has asked candidates to reach their exam centres by 9:30am, stating that all the gates of the centres will be closed after that time.

The preliminary exam consists of a 200-mark Multiple Choice Question exam. The duration of the test will be two hours and there will be 200 questions. Candidates will get 1 mark for each correct answer, while 0.5 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer...