The CBSE decision may benefit kids from low-income families who do not have access to online education
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has given schools permission to conduct one-on-one phone assessments with pupils who were unable to take any exams during the year. This rule only applies to pupils in class 10. Because board exams are not held for class 10 pupils, the Board has granted a waiver to students who were unable to participate in online assessments held by their schools for whatever reason. Students from low-income families who may not have access to online education may benefit from this.
“If a candidate does not appear in any of the school’s tests, the school may conduct an offline/online or telephonic one-to-one evaluation and document the results to certify the recommendations. The school may objectively assess the student on that basis using the maximum scores available in each subject,” CBSE said in an official directive intended to assist schools in filling up evaluation marks for CBSE class 10 students.
However, if a student is not traceable by the school, that is, if there is no contact information (phone number, email address, etc.) and the student has not shown up for pre-boards, they will be declared absent. The Board has ordered schools to form a committee of five teachers from mathematics, social science, science, and two teachers from languages to calculate the result. “This is because these subject teachers, on their own or with the support of other teachers of these subjects taught to the students if there are more than one teacher in the topic, can form an accurate judgement on the students’ learning.
Furthermore, the school should co-opt two teachers from nearby schools as external members of the Committee,” according to CBSE. In the event that a reacher from one of the other five subjects is co-opted into the committee. Due to the abolition of board exams this year, schools have been urged to award students grades for final exams based on the school’s various tests and exams throughout the year. Preboard exams, which will be worth 40 points, will be given the most weight in this procedure. Midterms or unit examinations given by schools will be worth 30 points, while periodic tests will be worth 10 points, according to the criteria set by the Board.
While the board’s protocol will be followed in computing the results for the majority of students, those who did not have access to education or classes or who were unable to take the exam during the year would be given a break. Schools were closed for the majority of the academic semester this year, as they were in 2020. Meanwhile, the CBSE has extended the deadline for schools to submit their class 10 assessment marks to June 30. As a result, the class 10 result, which was supposed to be revealed in the third week of June, has been postponed. The result is now likely to be announced by the first week of July, although the board has yet to provide an updated outcome date.
