new delhi the supreme court dismissed ob tuesday a plea which sought grace marks or removal of alleged wrong questions given in the union public service commission upsc 2017 preliminary examinationa bench headed by justice dipak misra said the court does not perceive any merit in the petition and is hence dismissedthe bench also comprising justices amitava roy and a m khanwilkar noted that the petitioner who gave the exam had not given any representation to the upsc claiming there was a question with more than one correct answersenior advocate colin gonsalves appearing for the petitioner said the preliminary exam result has been declared but the upsc will publish the answer key after the entire process main exam and the interview is overhe said that there were multiple correct answers to a question on two schools of thoughtthe bench said that the upsc test for the allindia civil services is the highestlevel exam and candidates taking it are expected to go by the books rather than the views of researcherssenior advocate p s patwalia representing the upsc said that while 35 candidates gave representations to the commission the petitioner candidate has not given anyhe said the expert panel has found no ambiguity in the question paper and therefore all those representations have been rejectedearlier the apex court had agreed to examine the plea which alleged that two questions in the 2017 preliminary examination of the upsc were wrongthe commissiob had conducted the civil services preliminary test 2017 on june 18 the preliminary examination consisted of two papers having objective type questions and they carried a maximum of 400 marksthe petitioner has claimed that this years preliminary examination paper had questions with multiple answers and many of them could have been answered on the subjective interpretation of the examineesshe has also referred to earlier judgements of the apex court which had said that a question having two or more corrects answers should be considered as incorrect