Redo moderation of class X marks: CBSE

PATNA: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has warned 253 out of its 943 affiliated schools in Bihar against giving inflated marks to their students of class X and directed them to redo the moderation of marks. The board has asked the schools to follow the marking or assessment policy formulated by it.
The circular said upon analysis post uploading of marks by the schools, it observed that some schools have not done the same and bunched the marks in upper brackets of given reference range — instead of distributing theory marks in 70-80 range, marks have been bunched in 77-80 range. “This is unfair to the few actually deserving candidates, whose performance will fall in this range of marks,” it said.
The CBSE has sent the list of schools with higher marks exceeding historical performance. These schools include St Michael’s High School, Delhi Public School, Notre Dame Academy, Loyola High School, St Karen’s High School, St Dominic Savio’s High School and different branches of DAV Public Schools. The officials of most of these schools claimed that the board has raised objections to allotting higher marks to the top scorers and they have to reshuffle the marks of all students to avoid injustice to the deserving candidates.
Rajiv Ranjan Sinha, city coordinator of the CBSE and principal of Baldwin Academy, said his school name was not in the list as they have followed the marking pattern. He said as per the CBSE guideline, candidates who have been awarded 96 and more marks should be reviewed and revised.
Glenda Galstaun, principal of St Dominic Savio’s High School, said the format is called ‘historical report of the last three years’ and, accordingly, the marks were submitted. “So, we have resubmitted the previous report only because there was no child to whom we have given extra marks. Only 2-3 students got 96 marks in some subjects. Otherwise , we have not made much changes,” she said.
Gyan Niketan Boy’s School vice-principal Shailendra Mohan Jha said they received the letter from the board on Tuesday evening and uploaded the revised marks on Wednesday. “As per our data update, around 10-15% students out of 408 in class X were getting marks above 95, including theory and practical. We revised the marks and sent them again,” he said.
Sharat Kumar Singh, principal of Litera Valley School, said the pattern given by the board has been followed by the school and moderation body. “Most of the schools in Bihar have not taken the internal assessment. We have the documentary evidences to show that the marks are not inflated,” he said.