CBSE Class XII students gain up to 30 marks
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:05.07.2018
A student who passed Central Board of Secondary Education’s Class XII exams this year is likely to have got 30 marks more than the total in their answer scripts. Yes, CBSE did moderate the marks this year, granting nine additional marks each in physics, chemistry, mathematics and accounts, eight marks in business studies and three in English Core.
According to CBSE, moderation was necessitated by the difficulty levels of the papers when analysed after the exam by the subject expert committees. However, the number of subjects in which marks were granted and the quantum of marks added decreased significantly this year, leading a CBSE official to comment that the board was moving towards “zero moderation” from 2019, in tune with 21 other education boards that are committed to the measure.
CBSE called this year’s exercise “standardisation” rather than “moderation” because unlike till 2016, the board only had a single set of question papers instead of different sets with varying difficulties. An official explained, “The standardisation of marks was necessitated by the difficulty level in the question papers. The expert committee analysed the papers and we also got feedback from students at the exam centres.” The number of subjects where moderation was applied came down from 10 and 15 in 2017 and 2016, respectively, to six this year. The moderated marks decreased significantly too. For accountancy and mathematics they came down from 16 in 2016 to nine this year. However, a former controller of examination argued that even this level of moderation was much higher than conventionally practised by CBSE till a few years ago. “A high moderation was a rarity, with 9 granted in mathematics in 2014 because there was a wrong question. But generally between 2005 and 2015, it was restricted to four or five marks,” the former official said. The Union HRD ministry wrote to states, union territories and chairpersons of education boards last August on the need to do away with moderation. However, BP Khandelwal, former CBSE chairperson, who also served as chairperson of Uttar Pradesh Education Board, said that discontinuing mark moderation wouldn’t be feasible until the education boards could guarantee 100% error-free evaluation process. “Moderation is to balance the defects in the instrument. If the paper mark expectancy curve is seen as abnormal, moderation is done to neutralise negative effects,” Khandelwal said.
‘NO FREEBIES’: CBSE said the moderation was necessitated by the difficulty levels of the papers when they were analysed after the exam by the subject expert committees
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:05.07.2018
A student who passed Central Board of Secondary Education’s Class XII exams this year is likely to have got 30 marks more than the total in their answer scripts. Yes, CBSE did moderate the marks this year, granting nine additional marks each in physics, chemistry, mathematics and accounts, eight marks in business studies and three in English Core.
According to CBSE, moderation was necessitated by the difficulty levels of the papers when analysed after the exam by the subject expert committees. However, the number of subjects in which marks were granted and the quantum of marks added decreased significantly this year, leading a CBSE official to comment that the board was moving towards “zero moderation” from 2019, in tune with 21 other education boards that are committed to the measure.
CBSE called this year’s exercise “standardisation” rather than “moderation” because unlike till 2016, the board only had a single set of question papers instead of different sets with varying difficulties. An official explained, “The standardisation of marks was necessitated by the difficulty level in the question papers. The expert committee analysed the papers and we also got feedback from students at the exam centres.” The number of subjects where moderation was applied came down from 10 and 15 in 2017 and 2016, respectively, to six this year. The moderated marks decreased significantly too. For accountancy and mathematics they came down from 16 in 2016 to nine this year. However, a former controller of examination argued that even this level of moderation was much higher than conventionally practised by CBSE till a few years ago. “A high moderation was a rarity, with 9 granted in mathematics in 2014 because there was a wrong question. But generally between 2005 and 2015, it was restricted to four or five marks,” the former official said. The Union HRD ministry wrote to states, union territories and chairpersons of education boards last August on the need to do away with moderation. However, BP Khandelwal, former CBSE chairperson, who also served as chairperson of Uttar Pradesh Education Board, said that discontinuing mark moderation wouldn’t be feasible until the education boards could guarantee 100% error-free evaluation process. “Moderation is to balance the defects in the instrument. If the paper mark expectancy curve is seen as abnormal, moderation is done to neutralise negative effects,” Khandelwal said.
‘NO FREEBIES’: CBSE said the moderation was necessitated by the difficulty levels of the papers when they were analysed after the exam by the subject expert committees
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