The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has constituted a high powered committee for setting a well-defined objective criteria for Class 12 Board Examination Assessment 2020-2021.
The committee will submit its report within 10 days from the date of issue of the orders. The committee will be informed shortly about the schedule of the first meeting for discussion on the issue.
In view of the uncertain conditions due to Covid and the feedback obtained from various stakeholders, it was decided that class 12 board examinations of CBSE would not be held this year. It was also decided that CBSE will take steps to compile the results of class 12 students as per a well-defined objective criteria in a time-bound manner.
CBSE sets up high-powered committee for marks assessment.
"A 13-member committee has been constituted for the purpose. The panel will submit its report within 10 days," CBSE said.
The members of the panel include — Ministry of Education Joint Secretary Vipin Kumar; Delhi Education Director Udit Prakash Rai; Kenridya Vidyalaya Sangathan Commissioner Nidhi Pandey; Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti Commissioner Vinayak Garg; Chandigarh School Education Director Rubinderjit Singh Brar; CBSE Director (IT) Antriksh Johri and CBSE Director (Academics) Joseph Emanuel.
The panel will also have one representative each from UGC and NCERT and two representatives from schools.
The exams were scheduled to be conducted in May-June and were postponed in view of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic.
The CBSE has already cancelled class 10 board exams and announced an alternative marking policy.
According to the policy, while 20 marks for each subject will be for internal assessment as every year, 80 marks will be calculated on basis of the students' performance in various tests or exams throughout the year.
The weightage in terms of maximum marks for schools which have conducted the tests and exams through the year will be -- periodic test/unit test (10 marks), half-yearly exam (30 marks) and pre-board exams (40 marks).
For class 10, schools have been asked to submit the tabulated marks by June 30 and the result is expected to be declared in July.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court said it was happy that the board exams were cancelled and emphasized that the interest of students will be protected, as it asked the Centre to submit the objective criteria to assess Class XII students in two weeks.
At the beginning of the hearing, the Attorney General KK Venugopal submitted he had circulated a letter by the government in the matter. A bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari told the AG, "We are happy with the Centre's decision to cancel the board exam (CBSE and ICSE boards). But what is the objective standard principle you will apply? The criteria have not been given in the letter."
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The AG replied to the bench that the objective criteria will be determined by CBSE and sought time to place it on record before the court. The AG submitted the petition seeking cancellation of board exams may be disposed and an application could be filed in the matter. The bench replied that it will only dispose of the matter after the objective criteria is placed on record. The ICSE board counsel sought four weeks' time to place the objective criteria on record.
(With inputs from IANS)
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