Managements seek teachers’ discretion in awarding marks

CBSE XTH EXAMS

Managements seek teachers’ discretion in awarding marks

Kochi:21.05.2021

The Kerala CBSE Schools Management Association has written to the central education minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal, requesting to rectify the alleged 'disparities and deficiencies' in the assessment formula for tabulating the marks of Class X students in the absence of annual board exams.

In the letter, they have said that a majority of the schools and the students are facing problems based on the guidelines issued by the CBSE.

Earlier in April, the CBSE said that the students will be assessed by respective schools out of a maximum of 100 marks for each subject. The 20 marks for internal assessment for each subject will be as per the existing policy but the CBSE stated that the remaining 80 marks in each subject should be divided across the Periodic Test/ Unit Test (10 Marks), Half Yearly/ Mid-term Examinations (30 Marks), and Pre-Board or Model Examinations (40 Marks).

However, the overall average marks assessed in 2020-2021 for all the five main subjects should not exceed the overall average marks obtained by the school in the reference year — best of three previous years — that has to be taken as the benchmark.

“If this guideline is to be implemented, the brilliant and hardworking students will have to suffer the consequence of lesser marks and grades on the basis of average marks in the previous year for no fault of theirs. Hence the CBSE may be directed to amend the policy by providing discretion for the teachers who have been continuously assessing the students from the beginning of the academic year,” said the letter signed by president TPM Ibrahim Khan and general secretary P S Ramachandran Pillai. TNN