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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."