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"Written test is only a method of selection, primarily intended to provide a common platform to ensure equality between the candidates. But it cannot be said that it is the only sure and safe method to find out the best of the lot. Independent of that or added to that - any other method which would still help the appointing authority or even the Entrance Examiner for admission to professional colleges to find out the best should be welcomed, provided the method is fair and reasonable. Marks obtained by candidates in the qualifying examinations cannot be said to be not a yardstick to measure merit, even if the candidates qualify themselves in various examinations conducted by different educational institutions of course the inequality between the qualifying examinations should be reduced by adopting a system of equalisation of marks through normalisation process. To ignore the marks obtained by a candidate in the qualifying examination as a whole may be suicidal, after all, students take a qualifying examination after undergoing a system of education which develops their overall personality. If we ignore the qualifying examination completely that would affect the very standard of education in the State because the students would be concentrating more on the Entrance Examination rather than the qualifying examination. Common Entrance Test causes undue hardship and harassment to the socially and economically backward ad weaker  section of the people hailing from both urban and rural areas. For getting higher ranks in the common entrance examination it is an almost accepted fact that the candidates have to undergo rigorous coaching in Coaching Centres which many of the students from the marginalised sections of the society can ill-afford. But by reckoning the marks in the qualifying examination by employing a normalisation method, inequality between the standard of education prevailing in various universities and other educational institutions can be minimised to a large extent. Results of a qualifying examination is generally a reflection of the overall standard of the candidate and his perception. P.S.C. in our view has taken a conscious decision to give weightage for credits to the marks obtained by the candidates in the qualifying examination following a method of grading which would only increase the quality of selection, consequently a better qualified and meritorious candidate could be selected for the post, a method which even can be tested for admission to the Professional Courses."