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This is how the opposition courts work in Extremadura to avoid cheating


Files with codes full of letters and numbers so as not to identify the applicants, questions designed the same day of the test to avoid leaks and exams kept under lock and key. These are just some of the measures that the Administration of Extremadura puts into practice to avoid cheating in its oppositions.

Then it is the courts of each opposition that, based on these general rules, establish specific measures to act in each test. All with the aim that there are no last-minute tips on questions or they are tempted to favor the friend who takes the test that will give them a job for life.

That is the objective with which the Provincial Councils, Town Halls and the Junta de Extremadura have been setting up transparency mechanisms in all these processes. It is a way to avoid cases like the one recently published by this newspaper in a firefighters opposition in Badajoz. The National Police is now trying to clarify the alleged leak of questions denounced by an interim firefighter who attended the oppositions called last year by the Badajoz Provincial Council to cover 35 firefighter mechanical driver positions. There are five people arrested and one under investigation.

Or that of Cáceres, in which the Prosecutor’s Office investigates possible leaks in an opposition to fill eight free shift agent positions in the Local Police. The unions received an anonymous audio warning of the topics that needed to be paid more attention to in the exam.

The processes of management and guardianship of exams are the exclusive responsibility of the opposition courts, so each one establishes its own procedure, but what does each administration do specifically so that the oppositions are clean processes?

In the case of Mérida, according to its Human Resources delegate, Julio César Fuster, they follow specific rules before taking the exams and afterwards.

For example, in the last calls of the Mérida Town Hall, the written tests are usually called at the end of the day and that same day each member of the court, who has previously distributed the topics, must have formulated a battery of questions to configure the exam. .

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“It is the court, that same day, that decides the percentage of questions for each member to configure the final exam and print it moments before the test,” says Fuster. In this way they avoid leaks in the days before the opposition.

Regarding the corrections, Fuster adds that they have incorporated “innovative measures to establish the maximum objective criteria for measuring all the tests”, especially those that are qualitative, such as the practical assumptions or the work to be carried out. This reduces the subjective aspects of a court charging to do this work.

The data

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    euros is what a member of an opposition court earns as a minimum per day. They usually receive between 30 and 55 euros, an amount that varies depending on the administration that calls the exam, whether state, regional or local. The president receives around 150 euros and the secretary 100.

It must be taken into account that the prices paid usually vary depending on the administration that calls the exam, whether it is state, regional or local.

The members of the courts receive remuneration for their attendance that is usually between 30 and 55 euros for each day for the members. The president earns about 150 and the secretary 100. To this must be added accommodation and meals if necessary.

Without identifying the candidates

All the tests are carried out without identifying names and surnames. Each candidate is linked to an alphanumeric matrix of at least ten characters stored in a digital file that is guarded by a member of the court.

To open this file, a security key is needed, which is given to someone other than the member of the court. Other times these data are guarded by personnel who are part of the Human Resources service.

“We have incorporated measures to establish the maximum number of objective measurement criteria in the tests”

JULIUS CAESAR FUSTER

Councilor for Human Resources in Mérida

“Thus, at least two people are always needed to open and share this data,” explains Julio César, who clarifies that the physical custody of the documents expressly depends on the protocol established by the court. “Normally it is under lock and key and in municipal spaces,” he clarifies.

In the Junta de Extremadura, for example, they use facilities from the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration to guard the exams.

“There are locked cabinets that are delivered to the president of the court at the beginning of the selection process and they have security cameras for continuous surveillance,” they explain from the Board.

The regional government assures that “to date there has been no incident, and in any case the appropriate disciplinary measures may be taken otherwise.”

Other municipalities such as that of Cáceres also allude to the fact that the custody of the exams once they have been carried out is the responsibility of the secretary of the court “under strict security measures”.

They add that the correction of the evidence to be developed is carried out in most of the processes with a public reading before the entire court and the observers.

unions

In addition, according to the regulations, the union organizations that are part of the General Negotiation Table participate as observers in all the phases and acts that make up the selection processes, except in those that decide the content of the tests.

They also do so in the Provincial Council of Cáceres, where, in addition, once the exams have been carried out, they call applicants who want to voluntarily, together with the union observers and the members of the court, to see that the exercises are put into different boxes. These are closed and then they are sealed with the signature of the people who have been present at that act.

“The sealed boxes are deposited in a safe place, where access is restricted”, they explain from the Diputación, which adds that to avoid leaks prior to the completion of the exam, once configured and with a maximum of one day in advance of its celebration , are kept in a sealed and sealed support by all members of the court and union observers.

Likewise, the Diputación indicates that it has enabled an encryption and electronic destruction channel to avoid leaving any trace of information about said exercises.

The opening of the boxes where the exercises are are opened in front of all the applicants, members of the court and union observers.

“Since 2015, the Cáceres Provincial Council has been implementing the necessary measures both to improve access to public employment, and to guarantee constitutional principles,” they point out from this entity.

The Board, for its part, also points out that it has included new features. The last one has been incorporated this year. It consists of the implementation of a selective course for members of the courts in the field of General Administration.

All members of the court must have a category equal to or higher than that of the position

In order to be part of an opposition court, members must meet a series of requirements that vary depending on the Administration that announces the vacancies. However, there are some that are common.

All must have a category equal to or higher than that of the place being offered. In addition, its composition meets the parity criterion. There must be an equal proportion of men and women.

Likewise, the president of the court must have extensive experience in the public sector and normally the secretary usually has a legal or procedure management profile.

The election of the components of the court depends on each administration. While in some they choose to do it on a rotating basis among the officials who meet the requirements, in others they are chosen or raffled among those who voluntarily offer to carry out this task.


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