BHUBANESWAR: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha is set to announce the Class X final results on Friday.
Nearly 6.2 lakh board students have been assessed through an alternative method as the state government cancelled the annual exam for 2021 amid the fresh surge in Covid-19 cases.
The results of the High School Certificate, the State Open School Certificate and Madhyamik will be placed before the examination committee of the board at 1pm.
Once it approves the results of the three examinations, these will be published through the board’s office in Cuttack at 4pm.
The results will be made available on the board’s web-sites, including www.bseodisha.ac.in and www.bseo-disha.nic.in, from 6pm on-wards.
In case of non-availability of inter-net facility, the results can be accessed on mobile phones by typing ORO1 and sending and SMS to 5676750, a board notification said.
“This year’s experience of the assessment of boards has been unique in many ways.
In the history of BSE,such a situation had never been experienced before,”board president Ramashis Hazra said.
Students are keeping their fingers crossed as they will be marked on the basis of their performances in the Class IX final examination and the Class X pre-boards.
According to the assessment module prepared by the board, 40% weightage will be given to the highest marks secured in the Class IX examinations in each subject and the rest to the Class X practice tests.In case a candidate has not appeared in any of the practice tests of Class X, 100% weightage will be given to the marks secured in the Class IX examinations and subject-wise highest marks will be taken into consideration.
“I am a little worried about the results.
Securing marks for an examination |we did not appear for is a :little weird.
I think many of us will always regret the :fact that if we had appeared for the exams, we might have had scored better.
The Class X board is considered as a milestone and students put in their best for the exam,” Sanvi Panda, a Class X student, said.
Parents, too, said they don’t have high hopes from their wards.
“In the wake of this unprecedented situation, when priority has be-en given to safety and health, results and careers have undoubtedly taken a |back seat.
Had the students appeared for the exam, we would have expected something.
Without attending classes and studying properly, they are being promo-ted to higher class.
Of course, meritorious students may get better scores,” Sitaram Sahu, a parent, said.