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5. The learned counsel for ICSE Board has applied for intervention and we had permitted the same. Few other associations of teachers and parents have also intervened in the matter, and their interventions are also allowed and all have been afforded an opportunity of hearing. In the first place the learned counsel appearing for ICSE, who is supporting the petitioner has raised preliminary objection to the very application of the `percentile' to students from different Boards being misconceived and wholly in-appropriate. In his submission only the students who pass the same examination conducted by the same Board such as eight Divisions of the SSC Board could be subjected to the percentile formula. It is submitted that, if the course and the syllabus is different, if the question papers are different and the performance of the students have been evaluated at a different touch-stone, with a different pattern examination, it is not at all possible to apply percentile formula for normalisation or standardisation of the marks. He has placed on record a print out from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, from the web site of http.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile_rank, which goes to indicate that the percentile method can be applied when students are similarly situate. Barring the said document, no other material has been placed on record to substantiate the contention that percentile method cannot be applied when the students come from different streams, on passing dis-similar examinations with different evaluation mechanism. No authentic material and data has been placed on record to enable me to hold that the State government could not have introduced the percentile formula for normalisation of the marks secured by the students passing 10th standard examination from different Boards. I am conscious of the fact that the court lack expertise in this area and thus choose to refrane from holding, as sought by the ICSE Board, that the percentile formula itself could not have been applied to bring about normalisation of percentage of marks secured by the students from different Boards. This brings me to consider other challenges raised by the petitioner and the supporting interveners to the percentile formula introduced by the State. Briefly stated the challenges are thus: