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That further bone of contention of candidates, who remained unsuccessful in the Preliminary Examination have tried to demonstrate that in other large number of questions for which either wrong answers were indicated in the model answer key or option was changed on the basis of report of Expert Committee but in support no tangible evidence has been assigned by the Expert Committee in its report much less logical reasons to change the model answer key of Preliminary Examination uploaded on 06.07.2015 or the model answers itself were erroneous, which have not been properly looked into by the Expert Committee despite objections raised and it is prayed that the model key answer or the final answer key of some of the questions be re-examined by an independent agency and the answers given by the students/candidates be reevaluated, which is in paramount interest of the overall candidates who have participated in the process and when merit alone is the touchstone for qualifying the candidates to participate in the Main Examination, at least the merit should not suffer in such competitive process of selection and as regards the relevant questions for which emphasis has been made by the writ petitioners, we will take note of the same in the later part of the order.
ARBITRARY (1) Dictatorial (2) Autocratic (3) High handed (4) Mathodical Sixty one persons had raised objection regarding this question. Six out of sixty one had suggested option 2 as the correct answer, while eight had mentioned that all the answers were wrong. The remaining objectors had mentioned that answer to this question was option 4 "Mathodical" but the spelling of the Mathodical was wrong. In view of the Expert Committee, Model Answer (4) was itself incorrect. None of the four options provided in the answer key were antonyms of the word Arbitrary. Antonym of Arbitrary are Rational, Reasonable, Democratic, Accountable but Methodical cannot be antonym of Arbitrary. Antonyms of Mehodical are careless, inefficient, unscrupulous, chaotic, negligent, unsystematic, disorderly, thoughtless, disorganized, unmethodical. Hence, there is no correct answer to this question in the answer key and objections of 8 persons who had suggested that all options are wrong were worth acceptance.

Ques.No. : A/95 B/99 C/89 D/91 :

Note: In the next two questions mark the correct passive voice of the given sentence.
Someone gave her a bulldog (1) She was given a bulldog.
(2) A bulldog was given to her by someone.
(3) She has been given a bulldog.
(4) She is being given a bulldog by someone.

Eighty Four persons had raised objection regarding this question. Option No.2 was shown to be the correct answer in model answer key, out of these eighty four, one had suggested option 4 as the correct answer, eight had suggested options 1 & 2 as the correct answer and the remaining had suggested option 1 as the correct answer. In view of the Committee the answer provided in the model answer key is correct. The conversion of Simple Past Sentences into Passive Voice is as follows :

On the basis of these judgments, following principles can be culled out:-

(1) the key answer is correct unless proved to be wrong; (2) judicial review cannot be on the basis of inferential process or process of rationalization; (3) key answer must be clearly demonstrated to be wrong; (4) answer must be such as no reasonable body of men well-versed in the particular subject would regard as correct; (5) the Court should not lightly interfere with the opinion expressed by the academic experts; (6) when there is no discrimination in awarding the marks and effective of alleged wrong answer is equally on all the candidates, no interference is warranted; (7) writ Court cannot sit in judgment over those findings and examine the material on record to arrive at its own conclusion as a Court of appeal.