Scaling
System” adopted by the Public Service Commission considering the text of
U.P. Judicial Service Rules, 2001. This Court concluded that the “Scaling
System ... Subhash Chandra Dixit,
the Court had upheld scaling and had ruled that scaling was a recognized
method to bring raw marks in different subjects
different methods
of statistical scoring. Standard score method, linear
standard score method, normalised equipercentile
method are some of the recognised methods for
scaling ... scale are known as the “scaled marks”.
Scaling process, whereby raw marks in different
subjects are adjusted to a common scale, is a
recognised method
selected for the post
of Assistant Conservator of Forest because scaling method was not
advertised in the Examination Rules dated 20.12.2014. It was averred ... marks in the written examination
but due to scaling method, she was given only 610.69 marks in the written
examination. Petitioner has opted
Sanjay Singh 's case, the Commission could have followed the scaling method only for the optional subjects and not for the compulsory subjects. However ... scaling process", whereby raw marks in different subjects are adjusted to a common scale, and the same is a recognized method of ensuring uniformity
This Court in Sanjay Singh (supra) considered the suitability of scaling
method in depth but declined to approve the same for Judicial Examinations
observing ... merit
across different subjects, statistical experts have evolved a method
known as scaling, that is creation of scaled score.”
[Emphasis added]
19. This Court thus
said Rules
which relates to Accountants is reproduced
hereunder:
Category of Scale of Method of Minimum
Sl. Pay Recruitmen Qualification
No post ... Accountant' is reproduced
hereunder:
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Sl.No Category of Scale Method of Minimum
Recruitment
posts of Pay Qualification
scaling
system to an examination where the
question papers were compulsory and
common to all candidates. The deficiencies
and shortcomings of the scaling method ... inflexible requirement of law with regard
to adoption of the scaling method to an
examination where the candidates are
tested indifferent subjects
35250/16 21
is extracted:
Sl. Category/ Scale Minimum Appointing Method of
No. post of pay quali- Age Authority recruitment.
fication
Assistant By promotion
Engineer ... Assistant Executive Engineer respectively, which read
thus:
Sl. Category/ Scale Minimum Appointing Method of
No. post of pay Quali- Age Authority recruitment.
fication Limit
scale or scaling marks cannot be considered to be marks awarded to the candidate in written examination and therefore, vehemently urged that scaling as adopted ... Selection Board was empowered to adopt the normalization equi-percentile method in scaling the raw marks obtained by the candidates, and thereafter, applying the normalized
amended the recruitment
rules in tune with the revised pay scales, method of recruitment etc. of various
posts. But the 2nd respondent vide order
