...had not been prepared by the members of the Selection Board fairly and judiciously in that those members had taken undue advantage of the marks awardable by them at the interview to favour the...list prepared by the Selection Board and of the constitution of a new Selection Board to prepare a fresh select list on the basis of only 15 per cent interview marks awardable to candidates as against...30 per cent interview marks awardable earlier, lest the power of the Selection Board to award interview marks may be utilised either to pull up unmerited candidates or pull down the merited candidates. Consequently, the Chandigarh Administration made an order of cancelling the select list of candidates for appointment as conductors prepared by the Selection Board and published...

...discussion and interview for selection of Assistant Engineers by the U.P State Electricity Board, is reasonable.3. The U.P State Electricity Board invited applications for filling up the posts of Assistant Engineers (Civil) by issuing an advertisement in April 1989. 120 marks were...marks allocated for interview and group discussion were more than 20 per cent and hence the whole selection was liable to be quashed. Aggrieved against the judgment of the High Court, the appellants have...120 marks were allocated for written test and 80 marks for interview (40 for interview and 40 for group discussion) and thus it ∼comes to 40 per cent of the total marks for interview. This Court had already dealt with the question of percentage of marks to be allotted for interview for selection to...

...applicants appeared for interview before two Boards presided by two members of the Commission. The selection was made on the basis of marks given for viva voce and for academic performance. 100 marks were...been submitted that since in the instant case the recommendation was to be made only on the basis of interview and hence in accordance with the past practice which is being followed consistently and for a number of years, 50% marks were reserved for academic achievements/educational qualifications and 50% marks were reserved for interview/viva voce and selection and...which selection was made by the Commission during the period 1985-93 on the basis of interview and in all such selections the Commission had allocated 50% marks for academic achievement and 50% marks...

...marks for interview, where selection is to be made by written test as well as by interview, would depend upon the nature of post and no straitjacket formula can be laid down. Further, there is a...the instant case as the finding of fact has been recorded by the courts below that there had been no transparency in awarding the marks in interview and the interview marks could not be same as that...646, (1987) 5 ATC 148 this Court considered the Orissa Judicial Service Rules which did not provide for prescribing the minimum cut-off marks in interview for the purpose of selection. This Court...

...repeated as to the allotment of 100 marks for interview and also mala fides attributed to certain persons to accommodate the private respondents. It is further stated that arbitrarily 100 marks were set apart for interview out of 250 marks in order to help them only and that the entire selection was...criteria fixed for selection and allocation of marks, did participate in the interview; when they are not successful, it is not open to them to turn around and attack the very criteria. The High Court in...interview test. Of course the marks must be minimal so as to avoid charges of arbitrariness, but not necessarily always. There may be posts and appointments where the only proper method of selection...

...(1981) 4 SCC 159, AIR 1981 SC 1777. According to the petitioners what weightage should be attached to written test and interview depends upon the requirement of service for which selection is being made, but minimum cut-off marks could...the authority making the rules regulating the selection to prescribe the minimum marks both for written examination and interview. The question whether introduction of the requirement of minimum marks for interview after the entire selection process....6. Meanwhile, the Selection Committee met and resolved that as it was desirable to prescribe minimum marks for the viva voce the matter be placed before the Full Court. Accordingly...

...interview marks were manipulated so as to pull up undeserving applicants and downgrade those who had secured excellent marks in their Pre-University examination. It was said that a perusal of the marks list would show that the whole selection was...less than 10 marks out of 75 marks. The petitioners' complaint is that after the interview the selection committee carried the marks given by them to Madras and there the Government has manipulated...provided for awarding marks at the interview and therefore the power conferred on the selection committee is an arbitrary power which is capable of being misused and in fact has been misused. It was...

...posts was bad in law, the marks for performance in the interview were to be restricted to 15% whereas in the present case 25% marks were allotted for the interview and 10% marks were given for handwriting.4. It was submitted that a similar provision made for selection of...pointed out that selection pursuant to the advertisement made in 1987 was quashed on the ground that 85% of the marks were reserved for interview, which was considered excessive. The Board had revised the...criteria to bring it within the framework of Satpal Singh case and had accordingly reduced the marks for the interview from 85% to 25%. It was also stated that the allegation about the then Chief...

...examination was held on 20-4-2004 consisting of eighty-five marks followed by an interview on 7-7-2004 consisting of fifteen marks. The High Court declined to approve of the selection list and issued...notice, when the fresh selection process took place that written examination would carry ninety marks and the interview, ten marks. The appellants participated in the selection process. Moreover, two...to six Class III posts from amongst Class IV employees of the civil court at Muzaffarpur. The selection was to be made on the basis of a fresh written test and interview. Twenty-seven candidates...

...made on the basis of marks obtained in the qualifying examination and marks secured in the interview, in accordance with the K.S.C.S (Direct Recruitment By Selection) Rules, 1973 (hereinafter referred...to as ‘the Rules’). According to these Rules total marks for qualifying examination were kept at 100 and 50 for interview. Thus the marks allotted for interview amounted to 33.3 per cent of the total...marks out of 50 marks in the interview and 69.96 marks in the qualifying examination thus in all 99.46 marks out of 150. Appellant 2 obtained 24.83 marks in the interview and 66.40 marks in the...

...circular dated 4-4-1995 which should govern the selection and consequently the selections ought to have been made by assigning 87 1/2% marks for written/trade test and 12 1/2% for the oral test (personal interview) and...on 26-7-1996. The grievance of the writ petitioners before the High Court was that the Selection Committee, which conducted the personal interview, exercised the power of allotment of 25% marks...arbitrarily, and in such a manner that the marks obtained in the driving test lost significance. It was also the grievance of the writ petitioners that the circulars, which really should govern the selection...

...:(i) the 1982 Rules were ultra vires as no selection could be made only on the basis of interview ignoring the marks obtained in the written examination and/or academic qualification..., however, had noticed that nepotism or favouritism in making selection cannot be ruled out and as such, categorically laid down that only a low percentage of the total marks should be fixed for interview...personality of the candidate and his personal characteristics and traits are extremely relevant for the purpose of selection, the marks allocated for oral interview are 250 as against 1800 marks for the...

...candidates for admission to engineering colleges shall be fixed as interview marks; it also laid down the criteria for alloting marks in the interview. It appears that a similar order was issued in respect of medical colleges. The selection committee converted the total of the marks in the optional subjects to a maximum of 300 marks and fixed...Government by its letter directed that the said selection committee shall interview candidates and allot marks the maximum of which shall be 25 per cent of the maximum marks for the optional subjects and laid...High Court did in this case. We cannot, therefore, hold without better and more scientific material placed before us that selection by interview in addition to the marks obtained in the written...

...of this order.”8. Aggrieved by the above directions and quashing of selection list and the fixation of minimum marks of 50% to be secured in the interview, the appellants...interview and assessment of the confidential reports as prescribed in the Office Memorandum dated 9-7-1987. The marks prescribed for the written test, interview and confidential report were 50, 30...case (1985) 4 SCC 417 that the “spread” of marks allotted under the head of interview was totally unreasonable and arbitrary and has resulted in...

...that marks awarded by them in the interviews will merely be added to the written examination marks, for preparation of the merit list and selection list. We are referring to this aspect, as the matter of conducting interviews and awarding marks in interviews, by five members of the interviewing committee would have been markedly different if they had to proceed on the basis that there were minimum marks to be secured in the interview for...the requirement of minimum marks for interview, after the entire selection process consisting of written examination and interview was completed, would amount to changing the rules of the game after the game was played which is clearly impermissible. 33. …We may clarify that prescription of minimum marks for any interview is not illegal. We have no doubt that the authority making rules regulating the selection, can...interview, therefore introduction of the requirement of minimum marks for interview, after the entire selection process consisting of written examination and interview was completed, would amount to changing the rules of the game after the game was played; and (b) if the interviewers had to proceed on the basis that there were minimum marks to be secured in the interview for being considered for selection and...

...appellants invited candidates ranking high in the merit list for interview and selection thereafter. The marks in the examination and the marks in the interview had been awarded by different.... Candidates who were ranked sufficiently high on the basis of their marks in the written examination will be called for interview. The final selection will be on the basis of the aggregate marks obtained...by the candidate in the preliminary examination and interview and will be strictly according to merit.2. Accordingly on 9-12-1979, the written examination was conducted...

...gave drastically different marks. First, in this regard it is submitted that this shows the erratic irrational marking on subjective satisfaction, which interview marks being as high as 30% is irrational, especially, when it is showed that the difference between selection and non...advertisement only laid down the eligibility criteria by virtue of the qualifications prescribed for inviting applications from applicants, the Selection Committee on its own fixed a total of 100 marks and assigned different marks for different academic qualifications, i.e., 10 marks for matriculation, 10 marks for intermediate and 40 marks for graduation.(iii) That the marks for the interview were fixed by the Selection Committee...interviewed by the Selection Committee for the posts available in the four colleges on the same day but at four different times, there was a great variation in the marks assigned to the appellant and the...

...candidates who had a post-graduation degree had been awarded 10 marks and in the viva-voce, such PG candidates had been granted either 18 marks or 20 marks out of 20. That although the writ petitioners had performed exceptionally well in the interview, the authorities had acted in an arbitrary manner while carrying out the selection process...indicate the assessment of candidates individually made by the members of the Selection Committee and their overall merit including the marks awarded in the interview. That the absence of the award rolls...individually made by members of the Selection Committee and their overall merit including the marks awarded in the interview.iii) One of the Judges of the Division Bench, Justice...

...8 in the additional list. It is also stated in the counter-affidavit that 50% marks were given to the written test and 50% marks for the interview. That will not vitiate the selection as held by the...matter of selection to the post of watchman, we feel it is more appropriate to set apart 50% marks for the interview. Physical fitness and personality are essential requirements for a watchman...of posts, the minimum qualification was reduced to 46 marks and 11 more persons were permitted to appear at the interview. It has furthermore not been disputed that 100 marks were fixed both for...