Overview
- The Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday that CBSE formally notified a nationwide policy on June 21 to assess private Class XII candidates whose exams in seven Gulf and West Asian countries were cancelled.
- For subjects that could not be held the board will award marks using a 40:60 mix: 40% from a candidate’s Class X theory performance and 60% from the last-attempted Class XII theory marks, with Class X converted as the average of the candidate’s top three main subjects and normalized.
- CBSE will retain practical, project and internal marks where those components exist, and the board told the court it had computed and communicated the petitioner’s revised result by email and will update DigiLocker.
- The policy allows candidates unhappy with assessed marks to sit the next regular CBSE examination, but lawyers for affected students say the notification omits fixed timelines and rules on access to answer copies, verification and re-evaluation.
- The backdrop is the cancellation of Class XII papers in Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE because of the regional conflict, an action that disrupted admissions and prompted legal challenges over how private candidates without school records should be graded.