The top court said that the concerned committee of the board will examine the complaint and record the reasons for rejecting or accepting the arguments raised by the students for questioning the allotment or rationalization of marks.
A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar said, “We recommend the concerned committee to examine afresh the grievances of the petitioners and to reject or accept the arguments raised by the petitioners for questioning the allotment/rationalization of marks.” to record the reasons for the same.” , The apex court passed the order while hearing a petition filed by some Class 12 pass-out students who have claimed that their marks are not calculated on the basis of their actual performance as per the 30:30:40 formula of the Central Board of Secondary Education. Has been done. (CBSE).
The petitioners have also alleged that the Board has failed to properly implement the process of dispute redressal mechanism relating to the results.
The bench said that the petition filed before it be treated as representation and appropriate action be taken by the committee within two weeks on the grounds raised therein.
The top court has listed the matter for hearing after two weeks.
The counsel appearing for the petitioners said that the matter raises the issue of alleged non-implementation of valuation policy in the true sense.
The lawyer said that the authority had decided to represent them, but without any orders and they did not go to the issues raised by the students.
The counsel argued that there was a difference in the marks awarded to these students on the basis of their actual performance and the marks awarded in the results.
“Their complaint is that they have not been awarded marks as per the evaluation policy confirmed by the court,” argued the counsel, adding that the petitioners are not in any way challenging the evaluation policy.
The counsel appearing for CBSE told the bench that the school was duly informed that the results were declared as per the policy of the board.
The bench then asked whether the authority concerned had given reasons for dealing with the individual complaint raised by the student.
CBSE had earlier told the apex court that it has “duly followed” the evaluation scheme in evaluating the marks of Class 12 students whose exams were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On June 17, the apex court had approved the evaluation schemes of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and CBSE, which adopted the 30:30:40 formula for evaluation of marks of class 12 students based on the results. Was. of class 10, 11 and 12 respectively.
The top court had approved the evaluation plans of CISCE and CBSE and said that the provision for dispute resolution should be included if the students want improvement in the final result.
The petition, which was heard by the top court on Thursday, claimed that the petitioners were given lesser marks, causing them a lot of damage.
The petition alleges that CBSE provided the mechanism for dispute resolution but “only on paper and in reality failed to implement it, causing great harm to the petitioner students and if it goes unresolved it will render them irreparable”. There will be damage”.
It has also sought a direction that their results be declared on the basis of 30:30:40 formula and taking into account the actual marks obtained by them.
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 in practical and internal assessment by class 12 students on the actual basis uploaded by the schools on the CBSE portal will also be considered in deciding the final result.
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