Several students, who have taken to the streets over the issue, want the CSAT scrapped.
The Opposition seems to have united against the government on the row over the Civil Service Aptitude Test or CSAT exams in the civil service preliminary examinations.
The government is sticking to its stand and refusing to overhaul or review of the C-SAT format - which, protesters say, favours urban, English-speaking students and those from the science stream.
On Monday, the government announced that aspirants of the 2011 exam would be allowed one more attempt and English questions worth 20 marks would carry no weightage.
Opposition parties are now asking for the civil service exams to be held in regional languages, and they have even suggested setting up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to look into the matter.
Communist Party of India Member of Parliament D Raja said, "There should be a level playing field for everyone who speaks different languages in India."
Some members of the Opposition want Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make a statement, besides debating the issue on the floor of the House.
DMK MP Kanimozhi said, "We want it (the exams) to be more wider and inclusive of other Indian language."
Though the government claims that it has tried a balancing act, protesting students feel the government has given them something that was not even part of their original demand.
Dr Madhuri from Telangana, who has been preparing for the civil service exams for the last four years, told NDTV, "This is not Hindi vs English issue. We want the CSAT scrapped. The government decision of not giving any weightage to the English questions puts us at a disadvantage."
AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, who joined the protest over the UPSC row at Jantar Mantar, said, "They were talking about a level playing field. They were not against English. What the government is trying to do is linguistic apartheid."
As the government digs in its heels over the issue, the protests are set to intensify, with students now threatening to boycott the Union Public Service Commission exam that is scheduled to be held on August 24.