The Central Board of Secondary Education has announced that the students who fail to appear for one or two papers from their terms because of the ongoing pandemic will be provided with the results under the special scheme.
CBSE also announced that the students who fail to appear in both the terminal examinations will not be allowed for compartment exams this year to get final results. They will have to repeat their respective classes.
In a live webinar ahead of the CBSE term-2 exam, Sanyam Bhardwaj, the board’s controller of examinations, said that students who were marked absent in term-1 exams and do not appear for term-2 exams will not be allowed to take the compartment exams because “all class 12 compartment exams are conducted on the same day.” For class 10, the compartment exams are conducted in a time period of 7 days.
Until last year students were provided relaxation to appear in the essential repeat category if they fail to appear in the exams or get a minimum score for passing marks in three or more subjects.
Students will receive their board exam results on the following basis:
Appeared for term-1 exams but absent in term-2 exams
Appeared for term-2 exams but absent in term-1 exams
Appeared for all papers in term-1 but fails to appear for 1 or 2 papers in term-2
Appears for all papers in term-2 but failed to appear for 1 0r 2 papers in term-1
Students who appear for exams in either of the two terms will receive a grade based on their performance in one of them. Besides, if a student is not able to take all the exams and appears for only three to four of them because of Covid-19, then they may receive the results under a special scheme. “The alternate grading scheme will be decided by the board at the appropriate time and will be in favour of students,” added Bhardwaj.
CBSE has provided Rs. 5000 each to all board exam centres by which they will maintain necessary precautions in schools amid the pandemic like purchasing thermometers and sanitisers. Thermal scanning is made necessary in all Delhi schools. Students will be providing Rs. 5 each day of their exams for sanitiser, hand wash, and exam centre sanitisation.
No more than 18 students will be allowed to sit in one classroom during the Term-2 board exams, the CBSE guidelines for board exams stated.
CBSE Term 2 for both Class 10 th and 12th started on April 26. The exams for class 10th will end on May 24 and for class, 12th will go on till June 15.
