Central Board Of Secondary Education [CBSE] — Inappropriate marking scheme for AISSE 12th board exam 2021

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Bhopal

CALCULATING MARKS IN CBSE XIITH BOARD EXAM: 2021

1. Method of calculating is as follows:

(a) Component A – 40% of the theory marks scored by the student in Unit test/ Midterm test/ Pre board exam.

(b) Component B – 30%of theory marks scored by the student in XI final exam.

(c) Component C – 30% of average marks secured in 3 best scoring subjects of Xth board exam.

(d) Total marks = (A + B + C)

2. Marks awarded to the student in class XII are to be in consonance with past performance of the school in XII board exam. Maximum variation permitted to the school is 2% and/ or 5 marks per subject from the reference year datum marks.

3. Marks secured by the student in Practical/ Internal assessment would be as uploaded by the school (without any reference to the marks secured by students in previous year or based on past performance of the school in XIIth board exam).

OBSERVATIONS/ OBJECTIONS TO THE CBSE POLICY

4. As per Annexure 3 (Illustrative example for internal moderation of marks) it appears that marking/ assessment for students in 2021 has to be in the same distribution ratio as it was for year 2020. Therefore, even if the students have performed better than previous year they can’t be marked as per their performance because of the reference year/ batch rule. This rule is not applicable if exams are conducted in schools (offline mode). The policy thus appears in contravention to law of natural justice.

5. Extrapolating marks of 20 students of 2020 batch (arbitrary number) over a batch of 200 students in 2021 batch is bound to create errors. CBSE has not mentioned any minimum and maximum ratio of students from reference year batch to current year batch, for applying this policy either.

6. Rationale document Annexure 2 is not available for students and/ or parents to view and the logic of the Result Committee is not disclosed either. It is presumed that the same has been perused by CBSE officials and assessed for it veracity to avoid favouritism/ bias.

7. Performance of reference year/ previous batch students being used to assess performance of 2021 batch is flawed as it can lead to extreme errors in assessment if performance of students varies vastly between previous/ reference year batch to the batch of 2021. Hence, performance of students appearing for 12th board in 2021 is being assessed as per the demonstrated performance of their predecessors, which defies logic and law of natural justice.

RESULT COMPUTATION: AARAV SHREEPAD TOKEKAR[protected]

Best three subjects in 10th board exam – 75, 74, 71 (Av 73.33) 30% of 73.33 = 22

Theory marks of 11th final exam subject wise given in bracket (as shared by school)

Theory marks of 12th final exam subject wise given in bracket (as shared by school)

Actual marks as per 12th board exam marksheet downloaded from CBSE site.

Subject 30% 30%(total) 40% (total) Total Actual Difference
10th 11th 12th marks result from
C B A C+B+A CBSE calculated
English 22 22.5 (75) 25.6 (64) 70.1 57 -23.1
Maths 22 21.9 (73) 23.2 (58) 67.1 45 -22.1
Physics 22 19.5 (65) 22.0 (55) 63.5 42 -21.5
Chemistry 22 19.5 (65) 22.0 (55) 63.5 47 -16.5
Phy Edu 22 20.1 (67) 24.4 (61) 66.5 46 -20.5

Averaging out the marks deducted (moderated as per CBSE reference year rule) this student loses 20.74 marks per subject due to poor performance of students who appeared 12th CBSE board exam in 2020 from Sankalp Public School (50662). Average marks secured by students of this school in 2020 batch of AISSE 12th board exam is 38.7% which has lead to such a drastic downward moderation. However the moderation has not been applied equitably to all students as 4 students have secured 90%+ in spite of moderation (as per school).

8. Moderation of marks scored based on reference year data needs to be cancelled and marking/ assessment redone to benefit students.