PANAJI: The Goa Board on Friday released its policy for tabulation of marks for the Class XII batch of 2021.
The Board has adopted a CBSE-like 30:30:40 evaluation method, with 30% weightage each to the students’ performance in Class X and XI, and 40% to the students’ internal assessments carried out by schools in Class XII.
For Class X, the average of the marks scored by the student at the public exam will be taken of any three subjects where the student has performed the best.
This component will get 30% weightage.
For Class XI, 30% weightage will go to the students’ performance in the final theory component.
And in the case of Class XII, the students’ performance in various evaluations carried out by the school like unit tests, mid-term exams, preliminary exams, periodical tests will get together 40% weightage.
The Class XII results are tentatively set to be declared on July 20.
The Board has said that if any of the students are unhappy with the marks allotted to them, an examination will be conducted provided the conditions prove conducive for the same.
“The option to appear for the examination has been provided by the board as and when the situation becomes conducive for examination for those candidates who are not satisfied with the assessment through objective criterion.
In such cases, marks scored in the later examination will be considered final,” the Board’s policy states.
Like the Board had asked schools in the case of Class X students, each school will form a results committee to tabulate the results of students of their school.
The Board has said that the Class XII evaluations carried out by schools in 2021-22 for unit tests, mid term exam, preliminary exam, etc, were mostly through the online mode.
Therefore, as these scores alone may not be reliable, Class X and XI components are being given weightage.
“These examinations were not in similar settings for all, and (there were) variations in access to digital infrastructure.
These examinations were not conducted by the board and will not meet the goal of standardised assessment, and may also reflect subjectivity inherent in school-based assessment,” the Board has said.
Therefore, to address these issues, school-based assessment at Class XII need to be supplemented by standardised examinations conducted prior to the Covid-19 pandemic situation, the Board’s policy states.
“The additional information of the performance of the same student to obtain more accurate results will result in impartial, fair, accuracy and holistic assessment of students.
The Class X board was the only Board examination answered by the current batch of Class XII students for actual year-end assessment, when conditions were normal and the examinations were conducted in a regular standardised manner without any deviation from the scheme announced by the board at the start of the academic session,” the Board policy reads.
Therefore, the performance at the Class X Board examinations held for the current batch of Class XII students are being given weightage as a measure of the students’ ability, Goa Board has stated.
“Since the students did not know at the time of taking their Class X Board examination that those marks would count towards the all-important Class XII results, some of the shortcomings can be overcome by using the scores obtained in theory (external component) exams, the average of the best three subjects out of the main six to seven subjects, for the purpose of calculating the marks, to give weightage to the students by omitting the scores of the subjects in which they underperformed due to some reasons,” the Board has said.
Also, the current batch of Class XII has appeared in Class XI examinations conducted in the year 2019-20 in an offline mode in their schools till the time the lockdown was declared in March 2020.
The examinations were conducted in a regular manner without any deviation from the scheme decided by the Board well in advance at the start of the academic session.
Therefore, the Class XI marks are being considered and given 30% weightage, the Board has stated.
“Unlike Class X, the examination in Class XI is based on the higher secondary syllabus and gives a good indication of students’ ability in their preferred subjects.
The examinations were conducted for full duration in examination halls under proper supervision.
As a result, this examination has high reliability in terms of fair assessment of students performance,” the Board has said.