MUMBAI: This year, SSC students will not be able to take the re-evaluation route if they are not satisfied with their marks.
The results announced by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) will be final.
“Revaluation and photocopies of answersheets were possible when exams were conducted and marks were tabulated by the board,” said MSBSHSE secretary Ashok Bhosale.
SSC exams were cancelled this year owing to the pandemic and students are being marked on a 50:50 formula based on their Class 9 and 10 scores.
In an online guidance to principals and teachers on the marking process for Class 10 students on Thursday, Bhosale said that as the marking process is being done by schools based on the Class 9 and 10 scores, the marks obtained in the results will be treated as final.
Students unhappy with their scores can take the two offline class improvement exams being planned depending on the Covid situation.
The board allows Class 10 and 12 students to apply for re-evaluation in subjects they had expected more marks after results are declared.
“Only 3 to 4 students per school go for revaluation in a subject or two,” said a principal.
Revaluation applications are sent through schools.
The board, on receiving the application, sends a photocopy of the paper to the subject teacher of the student’s school—the original answer paper is corrected by an examiner not known to either the student or the school.
The schoolteacher re-examines the answer paper.
Any error in correction by the examiner is circled and returned to the board that makes the changes and informs the student of his/her new marks.
The scores can either remain the same or go up.
The student will not get marks lesser than that he/she had before sending for revaluation.
A teacher said that doing away with revaluation would only put more pressure on schools to up the markings of students.
But Bhosale pointed out that as all markings will be done by schools, it will be assumed that all precautions will be taken to ensure that the students get the right marks.
Schools have been asked to keep the records of Class 10 students (used to tabulate their marks) for 18 months.
The tabulation and uploading of marks on the board’s system have to be done by June 30.
The board will set up vigilance teams that will visit schools found to have indulged in malpractices while tabulating marks.
The state has already given more preference to a Common Entrance Test (CET) over SSC results for FYJC admissions.
The results are expected to be out by mid-July.
No marks recheck, photocopies of SSC results
