Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Second ary Education (CBSE) has announced a hybrid assess ment method for Class 12 students in West Asia This comes after the students sat for select papers between February 17 and 28, following which the CBSE on March 15 cancelled the remaining Class 12 board examinations, includ ing papers earlier postponed in several West Asian countries amid the ongoing Iran–US–Israel conflict.
Schools have been directed to upload the marks on the CBSE por tal between April 6 and April 13. “Once uploaded, the same will not in quarterly, half-yearly and pre-board examinations.”
For subjects with theory compo nents of 80 or 70 marks, the board said be changed,” CBSE exam control ler Sanyam Bhardwaj said in a noti f ication, adding that this is to ensure timely declaration of results along with other Class 12 students. The board will declare results of near ly 23,000 Class 12 students in over 200 CBSE-affiliated schools across seven West Asian countries using a formula based evaluation that combines actual exam performance with school-based assessment.
Explaining the methodology for board exam results, CBSE in a notifica tion dated March 27 said that “in sub jects where examinations have been conducted, actual performance in the examination may be taken into account for declaration of results.” For the re maining subjects, marks will be derived from school assessments, including the “best of the three marks obtained schools will upload the “best of three” scores from periodic tests, while for subjects with 60, 50 or 30 marks, “per formance in the final pre-board exami nation” will be considered.
It added that internal assessment and practical components, described as “a yearlong exercise,” will remain unchanged, as the marks have already been submitted by schools.
For subjects with lower theory weight age—60, 50 or 30 marks—the board said the final pre-board examination scores will be used. In cases where a student was absent, earlier pre-board scores may be considered.
The board clarified that internal as sessment and practical components, described as “a yearlong exercise,” will remain unchanged, as “performance of the students have already been up loaded by the schools.”
