BHUBANESWAR: A day after the government announced the cancellation of the Class XII board exams in the state-run schools, the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) on Saturday formed a 14-member expert committee to decide the criteria for assessing the students.
“Chief minister Naveen Patnaik asked us to constitute a committee, comprising educationists and senior officers of the council, to come up with the assessment criterion for the Class XII students.
The Supreme Court has already asked the CBSE and ICSE to decide the same in the next 15 days.
Our committee will see what other boards are doing and then come up with the criterion for evaluating our students,” school and mass education minister Samir Ranjan Dash said.
The committee will submit its report within 10 days, an official notification said.
Following in the footsteps of the national school boards like the CBSE and ICSE, the Odisha government cancelled the Class XII exam, which is conducted by the CHSE.
However, the major challenge for the state government is to assess students in the absence of internal or the annual examination for Classes XI and XII.
The only marks available with the CHSE are of the the Class X boards.
Experts, however, questioned the assessment of the students on the basis of marks secured two years ago.
“There is very little chance of having any rational criteria of assessment.
The government is left with no option, but to depend on the Class X marks.
However, I am concerned about how will the science students be evaluated as they have a practical component,” Satyakam Mishra, former president of Board of Secondary Education, asked.
Basudev Chhatoi, the former chairman of CHSE, said, “We can assess them on the basis of the marks they secured while taking admission in the higher secondary schools.
We have to take the average of three or four of their high-scoring subjects.”