Breaking: Class XII Students To Be Evaluated Based On Performance in Class X (30%), Class XI (30%) And Class XII (40%) : CBSE Tells Supreme Court

The CBSE on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it will evaluate the Class XII students for theory based on 30% marks from Class X, 30% from Class XI and 40% from Class XII, along with marks for practicals/internal assessment on actual basis as uploaded by the Schools on CBSE Portal.The submissions were made a before a vacation of Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari during the hearing of the petition filed by Advocate Mamata seeking cancellation of the Class 12 CBSE and ICSE written examsDuring the hearing, the Attorney General for India KK Venugopal explained the policy as formulated by CBSE to evaluate the students."CBSE has been in existence since 1929 and this has never happened before in the history of CBSE. They have designed this with a committee of experts. For this purpose, CBSE has taken three classes - 10, 11 and 12." AG said.He stated that Class X is a Board exam, and the subjects are different from those in Class XI and XII.With regard to Class XI, each one of the exams including the unit, term exam and final exam has been taken. The marks are similar and are averaged out. He added that there will be practical exams as well, which would be for 100%. While 30 questions each for Class 10th and 11th are taken as weightage, for class XIIth, 40% is taken as weightage."Then we come to class 11, this is 70%. Same thing will happen with maximum being 24. For 10, it will be 80. For class 12, 40% will be taken. In case of Class 12th, the maximum will be 32. Class 12th is an important exam. The Practical is 100, and the total, if you take 32 and 24, will come to 56." AG explainedAfter explaining the mark distribution, Attorney General further said that the Result Committee, which will also be the moderation Committee, would comprise of two of the senior most teachers and an expert will also be invited, if necessary.AG also informed the Court that the internal performance of the school will be taken on an average to ensure standardisation, and the historical performance of Schools will be taken as a reference."The subject-wise marks assessed by the school for 2020-2021 should be within a range of plus/minus 5 marks obtained by the students in the school in the subject in the reference year." AG saidWith regards to those students who would not be able to meet the qualifying criterion, AG stated that those students will be placed in "Essential Repeat" or Compartment Category.While stating that those Students who would not be satisfied could appear again, AG stated that the examinations will be conducted by the Board as and when the conditions become conducive.A division Bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari was hearing the plea filed by Advocate Mamta Sharma seeking cancellation of the Class 12 CBSE and ICSE written exams.On the last hearing of Adv Mamta Sharma's plea, Supreme Court had granted two weeks time to the CBSE and the ICSE to decide the objective criteria for alternate mode of assessment for Class 12 students, in lieu of the exams cancelled on account of COVID.Attorney General for India KK Venugopal, appearing for the CBSE, had informed the bench about the decision taken by the Central Government on June 1 to cancel the CBSE exams and had further submitted that a decision on objective criteria would be taken within 2 weeks.In response to request for a uniform decision with respect to State Board Exams, a vacation bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari had observed that interests of the entire student community will be taken into account, adding that it will wait for the decision of CBSE and CISCE first, before considering other issues."Everything will be resolved , all issues we will taken into account, interests of student community will be taken into account whether its CBSE, ICSE or other Boards." the Bench has orally observed.In view of the uncertain surge in the COVID case and the feedback obtained from various quarters, the Central Government had on June 1st decided that Central Board of Secondary Education Class XII Board Exams would not be held this year.It also decided that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) would take steps for compiling the results of class XII students as per well-defined objective criteria in a time-bound manner.The decision had come after, Supreme Court had observed that if Centre decided to depart from previous year's policy, it would need to give good reasons, as last year the decision was taken after good deliberation.The directions were issued by the Court on the filed by Advocate Mamta Sharma seeking directions for setting aside the Notification dated 14th,16th and 19th April 2021 issued by CBSE and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination only in respect of clauses dealing with the postponement of Class XII examination.Breaking:#CBSE Class XII result to be assessed based on performance in Class X (30%weightage), Class XI (30% weightage) And Class XII (40%): CBSE Tells Supreme...

Breaking: Class XII Students To Be Evaluated Based On Performance in Class X (30%), Class XI (30%) And Class XII (40%) : CBSE Tells Supreme Court

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