Proposed undergraduate entrance exam to qualify for IAS, IFS, IPS

Manmohan Singh government has proposed a new entrance exam system to admit students at the undergraduate level to qualify for IAS, IFS, IPS and allied services. By reducing the eligibility criteria to the Class XII level, the plan is to hold the all-India entrance exam for central civil services on the pattern of the National Defence Academy, medical and law colleges and IITs. But passing the entrance will not guarantee a job. Students who pass the entrance would join a national academy for a five-year course. At the end of three years, those who complete the course would get a graduate degree. But only 90 per cent would be given service allotments on the basis of their performance; the remaining 10 per cent at the bottom of the merit list would have to quit.

This process certainly would bring professionalism in governance, but are the students ready to take such a risk where after completing 3 years of education they might not get a job?