Board Exam: Supreme Court Accepts CBSE, CISE Proposal For Assessment Of Class XII Students

The Supreme Court has said that there will be no rollback of the decision to cancel class 12 board exams, as it accepted the assessment schemes of CISCE and CBSE students.

The two boards had submitted their proposals to assess Class XII students as demanded by the apex court.

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What the boards told SC

The two boards on Thursday informed the court that they will adopt a 30:30:40 formula to evaluate the academic performance of students in the absence of the Board exam that had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 situation in the country.

According to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) it would consider the performance of students for last six classes, while CBSE will take into account the performance in class 10, 11 and 12 exams, in finalising the final board results.

CBSE said it will evaluate class 12 students for theory based on 30 per cent marks from class 10 board, 30 per cent from class 11 and 40 per cent from marks based on the performance in unit, mid term and pre-board tests.

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It said the marks obtained by class 12 students in practical and internal assessment on actual basis as uploaded by schools on CBSE Portal will be also considered in deciding final results.

Both the boards said they would declare the results on or before July 31.

SC asked boards to prepare proposal on June 3

On June 3, the SC bench of justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari had asked the two boards to place on record objective criteria for assessment of marks in two weeks following the cancellation of the Class 12 board exam.

The top court had said that it will go through the objective parameters for assessment of marks, so that if anyone has any objections it can be dealt with.

On Thursday, the SC said that it accepted in principle the decision taken by the Boards and rejected the plea of senior advocate Vikas Singh that there should be a relook of the decisions of CBSE and CISCE to cancel class 12 board exams.

The SC however made it clear that students who want to appear can do so for improvisation of marks and that takes care of the students who want to appear. In other words, no prejudice will be caused to students who want to appear.

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¡°However, the (assessment) scheme must incorporate the provisions for dispute resolution in case students want correction of final result declared and the second is for declaration of results and when the timeline for optional exams would be declared,¡± the bench told Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for the CBSE and senior advocate J K Das, representing CISCE.

During the hearing, the bench said there should be a forum for disputes redressal mechanism in the scheme itself and timelines be given as to when the results would be declared and the optional exams would be conducted.