PANAJI: Following marathon meetings over the weekend, Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has finalised a draft policy for tabulation of marks for Class X students, after their public exam for 2021 was cancelled. As per the draft, students will be assessed based on four internal tests held by their school and, out of the 80 marks, 20 will also go to the students’ Class IX performance.
The Goa board will declare the results by July 10. The board has decided that students, who are not satisfied with their assessment, will be given an opportunity to appear for an exam “when the conditions are conducive”.
The draft, which is yet to be approved by the government, states that the exam could be either conducted by the board or school concerned.
The board said that each school will form a result committee headed by the school headmaster with at least eight teachers as members.
“Minimum six teachers from the school should be from mathematics, social science, science and three languages, and two teachers from neighbouring schools should be co-opted by the school as external members of the committee,” the board said.
Students will be assessed out of 20 marks each for the formative I and II internal evaluations carried out by the school. A weightage of 10 marks each will go to unit tests and preliminary examinations conducted by the school and 20 marks’ weightage will be given to the students’ Class IX evaluation.
“If a school has conducted two or three pre-board exams it may decide to take an average of the three exams, take the best performance in the three tests or give a weightage to each exam as considered suitable,” the Goa board’s draft states.
The board said that if any school has not been able to conduct some of the internal assessment tests or if some student has not appeared for it, the result committee of the institute will have to draw a rational criteria of assessment. The school will have to document how it has assessed the students in such cases.
The board said that schools will have to moderate the marks based on its past performance at the Class X public exam.
“The historical performance of the school, in terms of the best overall performance in the previous three years’ board examination, will be taken as the reference for moderating the marks assessed by the school for 2021,” the draft states.
For example, if in a specific school, the overall average marks of students in 2017-18 is 72%, in 2018-19 is 74% and in 2019-20 is 71%, the school will use the subject-wise averages of 2018-19, which are the highest, for moderation.
“The subject wise marks assessed by the school for 2021 should be within a range of + 4 marks obtained by the school in the subject in the reference year,” Goa board said.
The school results committee will have to submit the marks on an online portal provided by the board.
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