CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Saturday announced the evaluation criteria to compute marks for state board Class XII students by fixing 50% weightage for Class X board exam marks, 30% for Class XII internal assessment and practical exams, and 20% weightage for Class XI marks.
The average of the best of three marks scored by students in any of the Class X board subjects would be taken for arriving at the weightage, a government release said.
The state education board would also give opportunity for students who are aggrieved with their marks to write an exam after the pandemic and that would be considered as their final Class XII score.
Marks will be declared for nearly 8.5 lakh Class XII students before July 31 as ordered by the Supreme Court.
The evaluation method announced by TN is different from that of the CBSE which gave almost equal weightage to Class X, XI exams and XII pre-board tests (30:30:40).
Explaining the rationale behind more weightage for Class X marks, school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said students had appeared for Class X exams in a non-pandemic year after attending physical classes.
“The Class XI exams conducted last year too was affected by the pandemic.
The present method was chosen by the chief minister keeping in mind the interest of rural students, urban students, toppers and average students,” he said.
The formula was fixed based on the report submitted by a 10-member committee.
The state board would conduct a separate exam for private candidates after the Covid-19 pandemic subsides.
State board schools have completed practical exams for Class XII students before April.
The Class XII practical exam marks (20 marks) and internal assessment (10 marks ) will be calculated for 30 marks.
If the subject doesn’t have practical exams, then the internal assessment marks will be converted into 30 marks.
Further, if the students could not take part in Class XII practical exams due to Covid-19, their Class XI marks will be used for tabulation.
If students could not attend both Class XI and XII practical exams, their practical marks would be calculated based on Class X theory exam marks.
If students had failed in a subject in Class XI, they will be awarded 35 marks considering the Covid-19 situation.
Students who did not take part in theory exam, internal assessment and practical exam in Class XI and XII would be considered as private candidates, the release added.