The council for the indian school certificate exams (CISCE) on Tuesday has asked the affiliated schools to prepare results of class 10 of Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) students by submitting average marks form class 9 and 10.
The ICSE board will use the average marks from the internal examinations of class 9 and 10 as an assessment criteria for class 10 results. Hence, The schools have been directed to collect and submit the data of all the assessment conducted in the academic year 2019-20 and 2020-21.
According to Gerry Arathoon, chief executive and secretary, CISCE, “We have not devised any concrete plan yet. Though offline board exams have been cancelled, students underwent various assessment throughout the academic session. We have only asked the schools to collect and compile all the data. Once we receive all the data from all the schools, then only we will be able to devise an evaluation methodology.”
Arathoon further added that this was an confidential instructions but the information has been leaked via media. He mentioned, “There have been news reports that students of class 10 will be evaluated based on class 9, 10 marks but it is only a speculation. It is only feeding incomplete information to the students and confusing them. Once we are ready with the final evaluation strategy, we will release it to public like the CBSE did.”
Earlier, the class 10 ICSE board exams were cancelled because of the worsening situations of the pandemic. The board had earlier given students the option to take exams on a later date. Those who didn’t choose to appear for the exam would have been evaluated on a “fair and unbiased” criterion. The choice was later withdrawn as the exams were cancelled for all students on April 20.