New Delhi: A division bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari are hearing the plea seeking the cancellation of the Class 12 CBSE and ICSE written exams filed by Advocate Mamta Sharma and Class XII State Boards, HSC and NIOS physical exams, filed by Child rights activist Anubha Srivastava and others. In its last hearing the Supreme Court had granted two weeks time to the CBSE and the ICSE to decide the objective criteria for an alternate mode of assessment for Class 12 students, in lieu of the exams cancelled on account of COVID19.
Attorney General for India KK Venugopal, appearing for the CBSE, informed the bench 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 the request for a uniform decision with respect to State Board Exams, a vacation bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari had observed that the 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.
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KK Venugopal had told the Supreme court that a proper policy has been put into place to evaluate the students. The evaluation criteria will be made available soon and a 13 member committee was constituted to come up with the evaluation criteria on the basis of which the final marks would be decided. He told the Supreme Court that for Class 12, the marks will be based on unit test/mid-term/pre-board exam and 40 per cent weightage will be given. Results are likely to be declared by July 31.
"The total marks awarded should be in consonance with the past performance of the school in Class 12 Board Examinations. The computation of theory marks for Class 12 will be based on performance in one or more Unit Test(s), Mid-Term, Pre-Board(s) theory examination. The result committee of the school may decide the weightage to be given to each exam based on the credibility and reliability of the assessment. For example, if the committee may be of the considered view that only the Pre-Board exams may be taken into consideration, then a full weightage can be given to that component. Similarly, another school Result committee may decide to give equal weightage to Pre-Board exams and Mid-Term exams," said the CBSE affidavit, adding that Class 11 and Class 10 exams will also be considered for the evaluation process.
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