A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar said that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will provide an option to the candidate to accept the better of the two marks obtained in the subject so as to make the final declaration of the result of the final academic examination. The year.
The apex court, which was hearing a petition filed by some students, who appeared in the CBSE examination last year for improvement in their marks in class 12, observed that the provision in clause 28 of the policy dated June 17, 2021 is A complaint has been made in which states that “… in accordance with this policy, the marks obtained in the subsequent examination shall be treated as final”. “Consequently, we have no hesitation in doing away with the condition specified in clause 28 that in accordance with the policy, the marks obtained in the subsequent examination shall be treated as final,” the bench said.
The apex court said that the petitioners complain that this condition has been inserted in the departure of earlier schemes, where the better out of two marks obtained by a candidate in a subject was to be considered for final declaration of results.
It is observed that CBSE has not given any justification for such departure.
Last year, the CBSE Class 12 board exams were canceled due to the pandemic.
The bench, which disposed of the petition, observed that the policy was required to be adopted due to the challenging situation being faced by the students and it itself justified making a provision which is more conducive to the students.
Initially, the counsel for CBSE said that these students have been assessed as per the improvement examination, and now they cannot avail the benefit of the policy.
“How does this affect you? Let us justify why it is not possible,” the bench said.
Hearing the matter last month, the apex court had said that the CBSE should consider the problem of students who appeared in the examinations in Class 12 last year to improve their marks but got lesser marks, because This will affect the admission they get. higher studies.
The Supreme Court had said that the students appearing in the reform examination have taken admission on the basis of their original results and there should not be any disturbance in it.
The top court was hearing a petition filed by 11 students, who were declared passed by CBSE in the original results on the basis of the 30:30:40 evaluation policy and were later asked to appear in the improvement exams held in August-September. was allowed. Last year.
The petition, filed by advocate Ravi Prakash, sought a direction to the concerned authorities to retain the original result of the petitioners instead of the correction test result.
According to a press statement by CBSE, 34,317 regular students had appeared for the offline examinations with the aim of improving their marks.
On June 17 last year, the top court had approved the evaluation schemes of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and CBSE, which had adopted the 30:30:40 formula for evaluation of marks for class 12 students . On class 10, 11 and 12 results respectively.
CBSE had earlier said that it will evaluate Class 12 students for theory on the basis of 30 per cent marks from class 10 board, 30 per cent from class 11 and 40 per cent on the basis of performance in unit, mid-term and unit. Pre-board test in class 12.
It had said that the marks obtained by the class 12 students in practical and internal assessment on the actual basis uploaded by the schools on the CBSE portal would also be considered for deciding the final result.
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