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The method of evaluating the Answer Booklets of the Mains Examination was left at the discretion of the Examiners of the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission.

The Committee in its Meeting held on 29th September, 2010 had also resolved that the number of candidates who have qualified the Written Examination to be called for Computer Test will be Four times of the vacancy.

The responsibility of holding the Computer Proficiency Test was left to Computer Center. Examination was held by Computer Center, and the result prepared by the Computer Center was approved by Committee.

5. That in regard to issue no. (b) supra it is stated that in computer proficiency test, the candidates of each batch were given passages from different texts of approx. 500 words, (depending on where a complete sentence came to as end) which varied from batch to batch for typing and formatting in 10 minutes. Even if 500 words limit is considered for evaluation, it is a normalisation of range to 500 words. No negative marking was done in any of the tests i. e. preliminary, main written test as well as the computer proficiency test, hence the left out passages in the text in computer proficiency test, must not be assumed to be mistakes. Marks awarded in each of the tests were based on the attempted questions or passages from the text attempted for typing by the candidates.

6. That, generally in competitive examinations like Common Admission Test (CAT) held by the IIMs for admission in MBA Course, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) held by IITs for admission in M.Tech. And Ph.D. Courses in India as well as the examinations held by several institutions in foreign countries the marks awarded to the candidates appearing in GMAT, GRE, TOEFL etc., are based on the performance of a candidate over the other candidates. Candidates with highest score of 99.90% (percentile) in some of the above tests conducted by reputed professional institutions will not mean that the candidate has attempted all questions and committed a mistake of 0.1% only. Upper range of 400 words was fixed for evaluation purpose as an average candidate was expected to type only so many words with proper format in ten minutes. Maximum candidates performed in the range of 150 to 300 words. Norms adopted for the evaluation of the answer sheets of the computer proficiency test were applied uniformly on all candidates and scaled scores were based on the overall performance of the candidates in computer proficiency test over the other candidates treating the highest performing candidate (typing more than 400 words) as the best candidate who has been treated to have achieved landmark score of 100% marks and awarded 20 out of 20 marks.

It is with reference to the said purpose that norms were laid down providing for the candidates typing between 361 to 400 words to be awarded 20 out of 20 marks and so on. A candidate with innumerable mistake, and passages left out would entail a deduction of 2 marks at the maximum. It is their case that since no negative marking was done in any of the test i. e. preliminary written examination or main written examination or in computer proficiency, left out words/passage in the computer test were not taken as mistake. Marks were awarded for the words actually typed. The maximum number of words typed by the best candidate was taken as the benchmark, which was more than 400 words and therefore it was decided that a candidate who types 361-400 words is to be treated to have achieved the landmark score of 100%. On the words typed being less than 360 onwards the marks to be awarded were reduced gradually. For the purposes of objectivity and rationality, general guidelines and a chart of range of words typed and marks to be awarded for that range of typed words was prepared for reference and was followed by the examiners. (Ref.- Sheets provided by System Manager to this Court). This has been described as scaling by the System Manager in his report to the Assistant Registrar.