DNA Micro Edit: CBSE results would hurt students of other boards

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had done away with its Marks moderation Policy this year, till Delhi High court intervened it, and asked them to retain it. In order to control the inflating percentages and to check high cut-offs in colleges, the Board wanted to scrap the policy. CBSE had scrapped the moderation policy, but other states boards had agreed to not allot grace marks.

This means that students from different states boards, whose results were announce before the CBSE results on Sunday, are at loss. Also, since states have agreed to Marks Moderation Policy there are chances that students may not cross the 90% mark bracket, and they may not get easy entry in to Delhi's top colleges.

To make things uniform and simple, the CBSE next time should make it stands clear about the moderation policy so that the cut-off marks remain reasonable and at par with the state boards. CBSE now should also consider the application of the state students whose results were announced before CBSE announcing it. Also many states might have completed their evaluation and might on be the verge on announcing it. States should ask the Centre resolve this issue and secure the future of students.

The Marks Moderation Policy was actually introduced to basically provide grace marks to students who are falling short of a few marks from passing the board exam. It was also brought in for giving grace marks to students for extra difficult questions in the question paper or for any question with errors. This eventually resulted in the spiking of marks to the students. Thus bringing the overall passing percentage to around 99 percentage.