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  • CBSE class 12 results declared, 70,000 candidates score above 95%

    By Express News Service
    NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday declared the results of class 12 board examinations after allowing schools to evaluate the students under a special formula as the physical examinations had not been conducted this year due to a massive Covid wave.

    As per the results declared, 99.37% students have passed the examination this year. This is much higher than the pass percentage of previous years — less than 89% in 2020 and 83.40% in 2019. 

    A total of 99.13% of all boys in class 12 and 99.67% of the girls declared as having passed the examination, with girls outshining boys with 0.54%, even though no merit list or list of toppers was prepared.

    In a statement issued, the CBSE said: “As a special case, the board will neither declare subject wise merit list of students and not issue merit certificates to students.”

    Among the 16 regions of the board, Trivandrum with 99.89% had the highest pass percentage while Patna 98.91 had the lowest.

    This year, the students were scored on the basis of a 30: 30: 40 formulae under which 30% weightage was given to result from Class 10, 30% from Class 11, and 40% from Class 12, which included internal assessments, unit tests, and term examination that schools had conducted internally.

    The board has however said that the results of 60,443 students, who registered under the private and correspondence category, will be declared after their exams are held on 15 and 16 August.

    As per the data shared by the CBSE, 13,04,561 candidates appeared for the exam this year and 12,96,318 passed.

    Also, the number of students who scored more than 95% marks this year is the highest in the last three years, despite a warning by the board to schools to not outdo the results by their schools over the last three years.

    More than 70,000 students scored 95% and above as compared to 38,686 students in 2020 and about 17,693 students in 2019, figures showed.

    Of the total candidates who passed the exam this year, more than 1.5 lakh students scored more than 90%, similar to 2020 but in 2019, this number was lower, at about 94,000 students.

    The Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and Kendriya Vidyalayas saw the best performances, as has been the trend over the last several years, with 99.94 and 100% results respectively.

    “For the implementation of tabulation policy successfully and in the given time frame, it was considered important to facilitate the work to be done by teachers. So, in order to facilitate schools and help them in compilation and moderation of results and reduce any inadvertent errors on their part, a comprehensive and feature-rich system was developed by the IT team of the CBSE,” said CBSE Examinations Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj.

    Bhardwaj noted that there were about a lakh students who were from boards other than CBSE. “The schools were requested to verify their roll numbers, name of candidates, and name of the Board so that their data could be taken from the Boards concerned. The system also calculated class 10 components based on data taken from various Boards. It also facilitated schools in uploading of class 10 marks for non-CBSE candidates whose data could not be received from board concerned and calculation of its 30% component,” he said.

    Only 6,149 students have been placed under compartment as against 87,650 students last year. “The compartment examination will be conducted between August 16 to September 15. The exact dates will be announced in some time,” Bhardwaj said.

    (With agency inputs)

  • CBSE class 12 results declared, 70,000 candidates score above 95 per cent

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Maintaining the previous trend, girls outshone boys in CBSE class 12 exams this year by a margin of 0.54 percent, while over 70,000 students scored above 95 percent marks.

    The results were declared by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday. “Girls have done better than boys by 0.54 percent. The pass percentage this year is 99.37 percent. No merit list has been announced,” a senior board official said.

    The result for over 65,000 candidates is still being prepared and will be declared by August 5. A total of 70,004 students have scored above 95 per cent marks while 1,50,152 students have cored above 90 per cent.

    As many as “6149 students have been placed in compartment,” the official said. The board exams were cancelled this year in view of the aggressive second wave of COVID-19, and the result will be announced on basis of an alternate assessment policy by the board.

  • CBSE directive on moderating marks internally to evaluate Class XII students draws mixed reactions

    Express News Service
    NEW DELHI: The CBSE, while allowing schools to evaluate Class XII students on the basis of Class XI results and internal assessments, apart from Class X results, has also made it clear that in order to remove school level variations, marks have to be internally moderated.

    India’s biggest education board has also said that the marks assigned for every subject for the batch on an average have to be consistent with the Class XII board results during the last three years.

    In its 30-page affidavit submitted in the Supreme Court on Thursday, the board said that as marks of Class XI and Class XII component will be awarded at school level, they will strictly not be comparable across schools due to the variations in the quality of question papers, standard and the mode of conduct of exams.

    Therefore, to ensure standardization, each school has been asked to internally moderate the marks to account for the school level variations by using a reliable reference standard.

    While the schools will calculate the total theory marks for each student by adding the marks for Class X, Class XI and Class XII as per the weightage of each class but based on the total marks, moderation has be carried out by the school in Class XI and Class XII.

    “Scaling up or down of Class XI and Class XII marks may have to be done in a fair and transparent manner by the result committee,” said the CBSE and as Class X marks are already standardized, no scaling is to be done by the schools.

    But the historical performance of the school, in terms of the best overall performance in the previous three years’ Board examination, will be taken as the reference for moderating the marks assessed by the school for 2020-2021.

    For example, if in a specific school, the overall average of students in 2017-18 is 72%, in 2018-19 is 74% and in 2019-20, it is 71%, the school will use the subject-wise averages of 2018-19 for moderation, which are the highest for moderation, the board clarified.

    The selected year will be the reference year for the school and for each subject, the school will have to follow a broad distribution of marks which will be based on the performance of the specific year by that school in that subject.

    The subject wise marks assessed by the school for 2020-2021 should be within a range of + or -5 marks obtained by the students in the school in the subject in the reference year.

    However, the overall average marks for the school assessed in 2020-2021, for all the subjects, should not exceed the overall average marks obtained by the school by two marks in the specific reference year, the board under the Union education ministry said.

    This clause has drawn mixed reactions with some calling it fair while others saying that it may be disadvantageous for many students.

    “I think the CBSE has kept the whip with itself so that some schools do not use the opportunity to score inflated marks for their students in order to raise their own profile and it’s a good thing and all schools must comply with this,” said Pallavi Sharma, principal of Mamta Modern school in Delhi.

    But a principal of another school in Delhi-NCR who did not wish to be named said that as every batch is different, putting such a restriction may go against the interest of students.