The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday released criteria for distribution of marks to Class 10 students. According to reports, each school has to form an eight-member committee of the teachers including the Principal. The CBSE Board Class X results likely to be declared by June 20.
CBSE class 10 board exams have been canceled because of the rising COVID-19 cases. According to the CBSE assessment criteria, students will be evaluated on the basis of marks obtained in the tests and exams held during the academic year.
The committee formed for the distribution of marks will have to give marks for each subject. While 20 marks will be given for internal assessment, the rest 80 marks for tests conducted during the last academic session.
The students will be assessed out of a maximum of 100 marks for each subject. While 20 marks have to be submitted by the schools as internal assessment, the remaining 80 marks will be based on scores in periodic tests, half yearly or mid-term exams and pre-board examinations, the board said. “The marks should be in consonance with the past performance of the school in Class 10 Board examinations,” it added.
The schools will conduct the assessment of students by forming a result committee consisting of the Principal and seven teachers for finalizing the result. Five teachers from the school and two teachers from neighboring schools should be co-opted by the school as the external members of the Committee. In cases where schools have conducted more than one test or exam, the committee will fix the weightage to be provided to each test or exam.
The official statement reads, “As marks will be allocated at school level, they will strictly not be comparable across schools due to the variations in the quality of question papers, the evaluation standard and processes, the mode of conduct of exams etc. Therefore, to ensure standardisation, each school will have to internally moderate the marks to account for the school level variations by using a reliable reference standard,”.
If any student with benchmark disability has not appeared in any of the assessments conducted by the school, the school may consider other activities such as portfolios, presentations, projects, quiz and oral tests done by such candidates during the session.
