New Delhi: CBSE has exempted a section of Class 12 students from both Term 1 and Term 2 examinations, taking into account the extraordinary pandemic situation. CBSE has taken the decision to give unequal weightage to the theory papers of both terms. This is for tabulating Class 12 results this year. On Friday, principals were seen to have mixed reactions to this.
For students who have tested positive or were stuck in a containment zone in either of the examinations, their final exams were tabulated based on the results of whichever exams they could take.
Apart from that, students who have missed appearing for one exam because of an international Olympiad or because of their participation in national or international level sporting events have also been exempted.
As per reports, the CBSE had introduced an exam format for the session 2021-2022. The exam has been conducted in two terms to stop the gaps and seizure of Board exams due to the pandemic’s second wave.
CBSE Class 12th Result 2022: Result Statistics
For the academic year 2021-2022, on Friday, CBSE Class 12th results are announced. The pass percentage this year is 92.7% compared to 99.37% last year.
Also, 33,432 candidates scored more than 95% marks compared to 70,000 last year. About 1.3 lakh students scored 90% and above. Last year 1.5 lakh candidates scored this.
LV Sehgal, Principal of Bal Bharti Public School (Ganga Ram Hospital Marg) in Delhi felt the decision is good since students' half-yearly examinations (or Term 1) were conducted at a time of uncertainty and that may have affected performance. “The final exams were conducted after the students got the opportunity to prepare well with their teachers and gain confidence, ” she added.
Sudha Acharya, principal of ITL Public School (Dwarka) in Delhi echoed Sehgal’s views. She told, “We had also advised the Board to follow this weightage system. We felt that we could not rise up to the occasion in the first term exams and some schools did not conduct the exams very diligently. We thought that deserving students would be affected, so we wanted the weightage to be less for Term I.”
“The Term II exams were conducted like board exams in any regular year where students go to external centres, unlike Term I where they wrote in schools, so that was fair,” she added.
According to Nirmal Waddan, principal of the Kalyani School in Pune, the Board’s decision has its pros and cons. “Term I was completely objective, which is not the usual CBSE pattern. Good students lost marks in this exam. That apart, there were mistakes in some of the question papers. For instance, in English, some questions had more than one answer. In the case of Mathematics, objective-type questions leave no room for step-marking which is also a disadvantage. As for Term II, which had subjective questions, our students didn’t get enough practice for writing. They were slow and not confident. That’s another side of the story,” she said.
Sangeeta Kapoor, principal of the Orchid School in Pune said that many students were perhaps expecting the Board to give equal weightage to both terms. “There are multiple ways of looking at it. Yes students and teachers were struggling but at the same time, we made some extraordinary efforts for Term I. We extended the term, worked on holidays. I think students were hoping for a 50-50 weightage, so let’s see how they feel,” she said.
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