Overview
- The Supreme Court told petitioners on Tuesday that it will hear next week pleas by 30 Class 12 students who say CBSE’s March 27 assessment scheme treated them unfairly and the Centre and CBSE will file formal responses through the Solicitor General.
- The petitions, filed by regular students studying in CBSE schools across seven Gulf countries, ask the court to quash or modify the March 27 scheme and to order remedies such as special fresh examinations or special improvement tests.
- Under the March 27 scheme, cancelled papers for regular students were marked using school-level records such as quarterly tests, half-yearly exams and pre-boards rather than a common central exam.
- To cover private candidates who lack school internal marks, the Centre notified a separate June 21 formula that computes missing subject marks as 40% of Class 10 theory plus 60% of the last-attempted Class 12 theory paper.
- Petitioners say the alternate methods reduced scores and cost some students higher-education places and JEE eligibility, so the court’s ruling could reshape how boards evaluate students when exams are cancelled and affect admissions for this cohort.