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San Angelo civil service commission removes flawed promotional questions, orders regrading
Summary
After reviewing appeals to sergeant and lieutenant promotional exams, the San Angelo Civil Service Commission removed multiple problematic questions, decided to grade the lieutenant exam on the remaining 80 questions, and ordered recalculation of scores. Commissioners and officers called for stronger test-review procedures to prevent repeat errors.
SAN ANGELO, Texas — The San Angelo Civil Service Commission voted to remove several flawed questions from recent sergeant and lieutenant promotional exams and directed staff to recalculate scores.
The commission began by removing three contested questions from the sergeant exam after staff identified questions that were taken from source material not posted with the exam. Commissioners said removing the items and recalculating on the reduced scale was the fairest remedy for that set of errors.
Commissioners then considered several other contested items. On question 50 (robbery), which drew conflicting interpretations about the penal-code wording, the commission accepted both answer A and B as correct…
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