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CBSE Class 12 students will be given options of getting marked on the
basis of internal assessment or appear in exam later
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New Delhi(Agencies): The
Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) has decided to cancel the
remaining Class 10 and Class 12 examinations scheduled to be conducted between
July 1 and July 15 due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Centre told the Supreme Court
on Friday.
A scheme has been prepared
under which Class 12 students will be assessed on the basis of the last three
examinations or they can opt for examinations to be conducted later when things
improve on the pandemic front, Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta told a Bench
headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar.
The Indian Certificate of
Secondary Education (ICSE) Board examinations also stood cancelled and internal
assessment system would be followed, the Apex Court was informed.
The Solicitor-General said as
soon as conditions became conducive, the CBSE could conduct the remaining Class
12 examination for the students who opt for it.
However, Mehta said unlike
Class 12, Class 10 students would not have the option of writing any
examination later.
However, the Apex Court chose
not to pass any order and sought further clarifications from the CBSE on the
option of examination for Class 12, date of publication of results, state board
examinations and new academic year.
It will pass an appropriate
order on Friday after perusing an amended draft notification prepared by the
CBSE.
“The notification should indicate the scheme
for internal assessment and give a timeline,” the court said.
“We are keeping these concerns in mind,” Mehta
responded.
As petitioners’ counsel Rishi
Malhotra said the results should be declared as soon as possible, the Bench
said: “Let them (CBSE) take a call on that....They will reflect on that.”
The Bench was told that the
CBSE academic calendar had been shifted and all entrance examination dates had
to be accordingly adjusted.
On Tuesday, the Apex Court had
deferred the hearing to June 25 after the CBSE said it would take a decision on
the issue by Wednesday evening.
Worried about community spread
of COVID-19, four parents of Class 12 students had moved the Supreme Court
against the CBSE’s decision to hold examinations of remaining papers between
July 1 and 15.
Petitioners Col Amit Bathla,
Poonam Singla, Charu Singh and Sunitha — whose children happen to be Class 12
students — had challenged the May 18 CBSE notification that announced a fresh
schedule for holding examinations for remaining papers.
They had urged the Apex Court
to direct the CBSE to declare this year’s Class 12 results “on the basis of the
exams already conducted and to calculate it on an average basis with the
internal assessment marks of the remaining subject”.
Highlighting the rise in
COVID-19 cases in India, the petitioners had said the pandemic would be at its
peak in India and it would not be safe for students to assemble at examination
centres in large numbers.
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