New Delhi: The National Progressive Schools’ Conference (NPSC) wrote to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and raised concerns about the Directorate of Education’s (DoE) revised promotion policy for students of classes IX and XI. The NPSC is an organisation of more than 120 private schools in the National Capital Region.
According to the DoE’s revised policy issued on Friday, promotions will be based on marks obtained in the mid-term (term-1), annual (term-2) tests, besides the marks received in internal assessment, project, practical or all taken together. The revised policy is an extension of the 2020-21 promotion policy.
“As per the revised promotion policy, a maximum of 15 grace marks can be awarded to a student to reach the required 33 per cent marks in one or any number of subjects. “So, if a child secures 18/100 in his aggregate (including theory and practical internal assessment), giving 15 grace marks will make him eligible to be promoted to the next grade,” NPSC chairperson Sudha Acharya was quoted as saying in her letter to the CBSE by news agency PTI.
“Also, as per the revised rules, a child failing to secure 33 per cent marks is eligible to appear in the compartment examination for all the subjects in which he has failed to secure 33 per cent.
“The cause of concern is that awarding compartment examination in all the subjects will amount to re-examination. It will also not gauge how much knowledge the child has actually attained and will further widen the learning gap that has already been created during two long years of the pandemic,” she added.
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