CBSE to change moderation policy for Class 12 Board result from next year

New Delhi: From this academic year, the Centra Board of Secondary Examination is preparing to do away with a clause in its marking system, moderation policy, which resulted in soaring marks in class 12 results.

The CBSE examination committee is going to meet later in the week and will consider to revise their policy and removing the clause that board has adopted all these years before declaring results of the final examination.

A senior board official said they want to ensure true marks of students are reflected in the board examination and to maintain the pass party, marks of students are moderated. This is unfair to those who work hard as moderation is not applicable if a student gets 95 marks or above, he added.

The committee is set to meet on June 29 where this issue will be taken up.

According to the clause, the CBSE can maintain “a near parity of pass percentage of candidates in the current year vis-à-vis preceding years, subject-wise and overall”, according to the Hindustan Times.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Saturday that generous marks distribution of marks will soon stop. “I will stop bad practices in the field of education,” he added.

“Students have to work hard to earn marks. It isn’t possible that every scores 100 out of 100 in all subjects. There should be some restrictions while awarding marks.”

The moderation policy that was adopted in 1992, allowed the country’s school boards to award extra marks to students. But, this policy was misused by a umber of state boards to increase the marks of their own students which triggered a resentment among others.

The spiking marks of students in CBSE board examination resulted in abnormally high cut-offs for major subjects like history, mathematics in reputed colleges like Delhi University.

There is a difference in the implementation of these policies as states like Maharashtra, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar do not have any such moderation policy. However, on the other hand, Goa, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu uses this to their advantage to improve their overall pass percentage.

There is also of planning to have a single paper across the country, which earlier was followed in three sets of papers—one for Delhi, foreign countries, and rest of the India.

According to HT, sources have said that this will reduce the need to carry out moderation policy.

Under the moderation policy, the board considers the set-wise performance of the candidates and the mean achievements in those sets and adds to the differences in the multiple set schemes as per the difficulty level of different sets.

The CBSE’s move on moderation policy will prove useless unless all the state boards decide to do away with the policy.

“It will put CBSE students in a disadvantageous position. Complete parity should be maintained amongst all boards, including state boards,” said a central board official.

The issue is still pending the high court and will be taken up by the governing body.