(1.) THE technique of scaling, normalisation and moderation, in evaluating the answer sheets in the competitive examinations, where candidates appear in mass, is an accepted procedure adopted by the Public Service Commission.
(2.) THE Union Public Service Commission has already adopted this technique and is applying it in the various examination conducted by it.
(3.) THE learned Single Judge, while allowing writ petitions No. 3272/1997 (Ramesh Chand Pilwal and Ors. v. Rajasthan Public Service Commission) and No. 3473/1997 (Niranjan Prasad v. Rajasthan Public Service Commission), has cancelled the result of the main examination in which 3490 candidates had appeared. The result of the interview has also been cancelled. The Court observed: