What is the point in Pre-final year students writing GATE 2009?Is it only to trouble final year students?

Validity of GATE 2009 Score will be for a period of ONE YEAR ONLY from the
date of announcement of results.Pre-final year students cannot make use of the score.
How is it going to help the pre-final year students?If the aim of this move was
to help the final year students,actually it is going to trouble them.why because
if the pre-final students perform better and qualify ,it will push many of the
final year students to a low score.And pre-final students cannot make use of
their score but only to put the final year students in trouble?
Please comment on this....

IMPORTANT ! Validity of GATE 2009 Score will be for a period of ONE YEAR ONLY from the date of announcement of results

Do you guys think this is a right move/decision?Provide your comments....