Govt mulls new rules for
passing Class 10, 12
MUMBAI:
State board students may no longer be able to bank on their practical papers to
pass their board exams.
To
stop schools and colleges from being generous while marking students’ practical
exam papers, the state school education department is likely to introduce
separate passing criteria for theory and practical papers in the Class 10 and
12 state board exams from the next academic year.
The
department is likely to enforce a rule, where students need at least 20% marks
in the written exam alone, along with an overall (theory and practical) 35%
marks to pass the boards.
The
Maharashtra state board had submitted a proposal with this formula to the
department a year ago. At present, students need a total of 35 out of 100 marks
to pass exams.
Officials
from the board said their proposal is expected to get the department’s nod
soon.
“It
has been a year since we gave the proposal to the department. It is now finally
being discussed by officials,” said Gangadhar Mhamane, chairperson of the state
board. “We are expecting a government resolution anytime now.”
Written
exams in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary
Certificate (HSC) are assessed by the board, while the practical papers are
assessed by schools and olleges, which usually mark students leniently to make
them pass. This was leading to an inflation of marks.
The
board’s proposal came after the pass rate of students in both SSC and HSC exams
soared by 20% in two years, after the existing passing criteria was introduced.
In
2014, the state board recorded its highest success rate in more than a decade,
with the pass percentage for fresh candidates crossing 90% for the first time
in both the exams. Between 2011 and 2013, the pass percentage had not crossed
70% -79%.
“We
investigated the reasons for the sudden surge in the number of students passing
the exam,” said Mhamane. “And, we found students scoring as low as 15 % in
theory were passing the exam because of their practical marks.”
The
proposal has also called for change in the passing criteria for Class 9 and
Class 11 in 2015. As the proposal was delayed, it will now be possible to
introduce the new criteria for these classes only in the next academic year,
2016-17, along with the Class 10 and 12 board exams.
Source | Hindustan Times | 20
November 2015
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Khaitan
& Co
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