Schools must send marks by Friday: Maharashtra board

PUNE: The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has directed schools sending incomplete information regarding the secondary school certificate (SSC, std X) students in the marks tabulation software will have to submit it by July 9.
Shortfalls such as marks not entered for some subjects, marks entered but not submitted, grades not entered, previous standard marks not entered among others were observed.
Secretary of the state board Ashok Bhosale said, “The state government has issued instructions regarding tabulation of marks for SSC and use of the prescribed formula to assess performance of the students on June 9. For the first, time a software was developed to enter the marks.”
Many schools have been given time from July 5 to 9 to correct the errors.
Some issues listed by the board include marks not entered in computer software, marks entered but not confirmed, marks entered and confirmed but there were some errors, one subject marks not entered, the percentage performance of previous class not entered, issues regarding repeater students,the software failed to register marks entered as there was delay in submitting marks, type of student such as regular, repeater, external was not ticked among other such problems could be sorted.