Say dip in percentage is due to misinterpretation of Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation
Despite Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) moderating marks this year as well, Class 10 results for the board have fallen around five per cent, as compared to last year and this fall has been a constant since 2014, an analysis of the national data shows.
While in the year 2014, 98.87 per cent students taking the Class 10 examinations passed, this year the percentage dropped to 90. 96%. While CBSE has not given any official explanation on this, experts say that the fall is because of "misinterpretation" of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), which evaluates students over the year.
"When CCE was introduced in the year 2009, schools were awarding marks generously to its students as it was a home-based assessment but later when they realised that by simply giving marks to students, they are being unfair to a student's future, they started being strict. The dipping of marks could also be called a course correction," said Ashok Pandey, chairman, National Progressive Schools Conference.
CCE evaluates a student for his/her performance over the year. As a part of this system, student's marks were replaced by grades which was evaluated through a series of curricular and extra-curricular evaluations along with academics. The system of CCE will, however be done away with, from the next academic session as all states will have compulsory Class 10 boards.
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry had announced that boards will be back, and the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) took the decision in 2016.
Demand of boards also arose because of misinterpretation of CCE. "People misplaced the meaning of CCE, they did not understand it and they thought it gives them leniency in evaluation and hence they started to demand a rollback," Pandey said.
An internal survey conducted by CBSE last year had also established that most teachers wanted board exams back. The survey said that 85 per cent of teachers on whom the survey was conducted wanted the boards back as they were concerned about the falling standards of learning.
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