@PT6A: did you not read cyrilroy21's post at all? Where in his, very detailed and beautifully articulated, post has he mentioned or implied the word 'strict'. I see words/phrases like 'weird', 'whim & fancy of the engineer' etc which to me translate into an idiotic mechanism of testing which makes little sense but a whole lot of rupees for the so called engineers. Not arguing with what you stated but the problem you mention has little to no relevance with what goes on in preparing or taking these tests.
-CM