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Supreme Court Upholds Class XII Marking Scheme

By EB Bureau Last updated Jun 22, 2021

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the assessment schemes proposed by the boards to evaluate Class XII students while dismissing the petitions challenging the CBSE and the CICSE‘s decision to cancel the board examinations.

“We hold that there is no need to interfere with the scheme propounded by the CBSE and the ICSE. It takes into account concerns of all students,” said a bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari said:

The apex court noted that boards have taken a conscious decision at the highest level and they have also taken into consideration the larger public interest. “We are not going to sit in judgment over it,” said the bench.

If other boards have conducted exams, that doesn’t necessarily mean that boards before it — CBSE and ICSE — are bound to do that. “These Boards are independent Boards. They have taken decision to cancel exams which, according to them, is in larger public interest of the students,” said the bench.

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