Bhubaneswar: The direct recruitment to Odisha Education Service (OES) Group-B posts will be conducted through a two-stage selection process, with the school and mass education department notifying the examination scheme and syllabus for the recruitment on Tuesday.Candidates will first have to appear for a written examination carrying 600 marks. Those qualifying in the written examination will be called for a personality test carrying 75 marks. The final merit list for appointment to the OES Group-B posts will be prepared on the basis of candidates’ aggregate performance in both stages.The notification states that the written examination will comprise two papers of 300 marks each. Paper-I will be objective-type, while Paper-II will be subjective. Paper-I will carry 150 questions, with each question carrying two marks. It will cover general awareness, Odia and general English. The paper will have negative marking, with 25% of the marks allotted to a question deducted for every wrong answer. No marks will be awarded for unanswered questions.The Odisha Public Service Commission, which will conduct the examination, will decide whether the objective paper will be conducted through Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)-based evaluation or a computer-based test (CBT). Paper-II will carry 300 marks and will test candidates on the Education subject through subjective-type questions. The commission will decide the number of questions to be set from different components of the prescribed syllabus.The commission will also fix qualifying marks for individual papers and/or the aggregate for different categories. In case of a tie between two or more candidates, merit will first be determined on the basis of higher aggregate marks in the written examination. If the written examination marks are also equal, the candidate securing higher marks in any Master’s Degree examination will be placed higher in the merit list, in accordance with the Odisha Education Service (Method of Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2019.