One time exemption of separate pass criteria for Std. X CBSE students
Posted on: 28/Feb/2018 12:46:04 PM
The Central Board of Secondary Education, or CBSE, has notified a onetime exemption in which students appearing in Class X CBSE Board examination this year will be exempted from the mandatory separate pass criteria in the subjects having internal assessment component of 20 marks and 80 marks of Board examination.
The current batch of Class X students will sit for the Board exam on March 5, which will be the first mandatory public exam after eight years. The CBSE had introduced the Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation, or CCE, scheme along with optional Board exam. All others took the school-based exam.
The CCE system was revoked in 2017 by the Board and Class X Board examination was made mandatory.
In an official notification, CBSE said, The examination committee in its meeting recently decided to give the one-time exemption to the Class X students as they will be the first batch after the Board exam made a comeback. As per the passing criteria for the Class X students of the 2017-18 batch, they need to secure overall 33 per cent (both internal assessment and the Board exam marks taken together) in the subject to be able to pass. This rule will also apply for students with subjects under National Skills Qualifications Framework scheme for the five major subjects - two languages, science, maths and social science. The provision of replacement of subjects extended to the NSQF students for the failed subjects (out of the three subjects – science, maths and social science) by the vocational subject (passed by the candidate under NSQF) would continue to apply.
