To show the default value and maintain ordering in dropdown values - spring

Question

I am working on an application that needs to display a set of questions as a drop down(the user needs to answer 3 questions) in the jsp page.
It works fine, but the issue is for each time I display the drop down list(the questions are same), the questions selected by default are different - the actual question I set in the controller. I need to be able to just display the first or "Select" string as the default option.
My jsp:
<tr>
<br />
<form:label path="qs1">
<span class="">qs 1</span>
</form:label>
<br />
<form:select path="qs1" multiple="false">
<form:option value="${obj.qs0}" label="${obj.qs0}" />
<form:option value="${obj.qs1}" label="${obj.qs1}" />********In this instance this option is shown in the drop down
<form:option value="${obj.qs2}" label="${obj.qs2}" />
<form:option value="${obj.qs3}" label="${obj.qs3}" />
</form:select>
<br />
</tr>
<tr>
<br />
<form:label path="as1">
<span class="">as 1</span>
</form:label>
<br />
<form:input class="" path="as1" />
<br />
</tr>
<tr>
<br />
<form:label path="qs2">
<span class="">qs 2</span>
</form:label>
<br />
<form:select path="qs2" multiple="false">
<form:option value="${obj.qs0}" label="${obj.qs0}" />
<form:option value="${obj.qs1}" label="${obj.qs1}" />
<form:option value="${obj.qs2}" label="${obj.qs2}" />********In this instance this option is shown in the drop down
<form:option value="${obj.qs3}" label="${obj.qs3}" />
</form:select>
<br />
</tr>
<tr>
<br />
<form:label path="as2">
<span class="">as 2</span>
</form:label>
<br />
<form:input class="" path="as2" />
<br />
</tr>
I even tried selected="selected" for the right ones, but it did not work. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.
EDIT: I should have been clear. I did try the option Amit suggested, as of now the obj.qs0 has the value instead of mentioning that in the JSP. I have just added that option along with the questions. The issue is I need to set the questions to the Questions object like below
Questions qs = new Questions();
qs.setQs0("----------Select-------------");
qs.setQs1("what is the name");
qs.setQs2("what is the color");
and so on.
So in the jsp I am setting the path
<form:select path="qs1" multiple="false">
<form:select path="qs2" multiple="false">
So those questions(q1, q2, and so on) are selected automatically and I cannot change the selection to always point to the qs0(where I have the default option). I also need to set the paths differently as I need to be able to capture the different questions & answers the users select.

Answer 1

1) To display "Select" as default, you can add below line :-
<form:select path="qs1" multiple="false">
**<form:option value="NONE" label="--- Select ---" />**
<form:option value="${obj.qs0}" label="${obj.qs0}" />
<form:option value="${obj.qs1}" label="${obj.qs1}" />
<form:option value="${obj.qs2}" label="${obj.qs2}" />
<form:option value="${obj.qs3}" label="${obj.qs3}" />
</form:select>
2) Use the LinkedHashMap or LinkedList to store the drop-down values in order to maintain ordering.