M.P.SINGH, J. - (1.) THE technique of scaling, normalisation and moderation, in evaluating the answer sheets in the competitive examinations, where candidates appear in mass, is an accepted procedure adopted by the Public Service Commission.
(2.) THE Union Public Service Commission has already adopted this technique and is applying it in the various examination conducted by it. The Rajasthan Public Service Commission has also made the same technique applicable to the examinations conducted by it since 1993 where large number of candidates are appearing and large number of examiners are involved in evaluating the answer - sheets. A Division Bench of this Court in the case reported in 1994 (1) RLR 533 (Mahesh Kumar Khandelwal v. State of Rajasthan), has already accepted the application of this technique as valid. The Supreme Court has also approved it.
(3.) THE learned Single Judge, while allowing writ petitions No. 3272/1997 (Ramesh Chand Pilwal and Ors. v. Rajasthan Public Service Commission) and No. 3473/1997 (Niranjan Prasad v. Rajasthan Public Service Commission), has cancelled the result of the main examination in which 3490 candidates had appeared. The result of the interview has also been cancelled. The Court observed: I am of the considered view even without entering into the controversy of 'Bias' that the application of device of moderation in the main examination is an arbitrary act on the part of the RPSC and it has affected not only the merit of the candidates who have been declared failed but also the merit of those candidates who have been shown successful and have been called for interview. The merit of a candidate should be judged on the basis of marks obtained by him in the main examination. The act of increasing and decreasing his marks by resorting to device of moderation in the main examination may be termed as an act of crushing the calibre of a meritorious candidates. Element of fairness is missing from this act. We cannot achieve accurate results by applying principles of statistics in the examination covering a few thousand candidates only. Accurate results can only be achieved by resorting the device of moderation in mass conducted examination covering more than 33000 candidates... ;