CBSE, ICSE results to be declared by July 15

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) on Friday announced that the results for classes X and XII exams will be declared by July 15. Both the Boards have informed the Supreme Court today.

The Supreme Court permitted the Centre and the CBSE to cancel the remaining Board examinations due to COVID-19 pandemic and gave the go-ahead to its scheme to award marks to students for the cancelled papers scheduled to be held in July.

According to Exam Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj, the exams which were pending due to the COVID-19 situation have been cancelled.

“Results will now be declared following an alternate assessment scheme. Class XII students will get an option to appear for exams later to improve their score. However, for students who chose for sit for exams, their marks in the exams will be treated as the final score,” Bhardwaj said in an official notification. “Class X students will not get the chance to appear for improvement exam. Their result declared by the Board shall be treated final,” he added.

The counsel for ICSE Board told the top court that it has more or less the same scheme as that of CBSE but it has a different averaging formula and may consider conducting re-exams for Class X. It said that a notification in this regard will be issued within one week and would be uploaded on its website. PTI

Evaluation criteria

• For students whose all papers were complete, the marks would be declared on the basis of the performance in the examination.
• For students who have appeared in the examinations in more than 3 subjects, the average of the marks obtained in the best three performing subjects will be awarded in the subjects whose examinations have not been conducted.
• For students who have appeared in the examinations in only 3 subjects, the average of the marks obtained in the best two performing subjects will be awarded in the subjects whose examinations have not been conducted.
• For the Class XII students whose only 1 or 2 papers could be conducted, their results would be declared on the basis of the performance in the appeared subjects as well as the performance in the internal/practical/project assignment. These students would have an option to appear for the examination at a later date. The results of all such students, however, would be announced along with the results of all the students.