Class X Exam: Students Cannot Claim Detailed Scorecard, CBSE Tells Supreme Court

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) clarified to the Supreme Court that it’s not possible to provide a detailed scorecard to some class X pass-out students. These students have alleged that an Odisha-based school denied the detailed scorecard to them as it had to “conceal its malpractices” in awarding marks.

The CBSE had submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court stating that when the issue was published as a news item in a local newspaper in August 2021, the Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) took suo motu cognizance of the matter and subsequently ordered the formation of a three-member committee to conduct a probe into the matter, LiveLaw reported.

As many as 24 students, who have passed out class X from an  Odisha school, filed the plea seeking a direction to the board to review and declare their result again based on the CBSE’s evaluation policy of May 1, 2021, after collecting the correct record from the school concerned.

“It was concluded in the Inquiry Report that by going through all the activities of result committee in respect of Class X 2021 of aforesaid school, the Committee was of the opinion that the school prepared the result of Class X students as per the Tabulation Policy and subsequent FAQ’s issued by the CBSE,” stated the affidavit.

Advocate Ravi Prakash had filed the petition and urged the top court to order an inquiry against the school “for illegally demanding money and putting undue pressure to take admission in class 11 in the same school to get good scores in class 10”.

The CBSE also filed an affidavit, through the controller of examinations, which said that the petitioners are not entitled to claim the attendance sheet of the entire class X for each examination and each subject.

“I, therefore, submit that the petitioners are entitled to know their internal assessment marks, the highest average in the preceding three years and the marks assigned by the result committee to them, from their school but that does not mean that they can claim the attendance sheet, report of result committee and detailed scorecard of all the students of class X of their school,” affidavit said.

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