CBSE Assessment Scheme applicable for CBSE 12th Improvement Exams 2020: Delhi High Court

CBSE Assessment Scheme applicable for CBSE 12th Improvement Exams 2020: Delhi High Court

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Updated on Aug 21, 2020 10:19 IST

CBSE assessment scheme for CBSE Board Exams 2020 will be applicable for the CBSE 12th improvement exams too, Delhi High Court said.

CBSE Improvement Exams 2020: The Delhi High Court has held that the CBSE Assessment scheme which was approved by the Supreme Court earlier, after the cancellation of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board exams due to coronavirus outbreak, will be applicable to the students who will be appearing for CBSE Improvement Exams 2020 for Class 12th. 

"There is no reason why improvement students should be treated any differently than the regular students since the pandemic has put them also to considerable disadvantage. Accordingly, it is held that the Assessment Scheme approved by the Supreme Court would also be applicable to improvement students," said a single-judge bench of Justice Pratibha M. Singh.

"Such students would also be entitled to avail of the scores as per the scheme or appear for the optional examination, whenever it is held by the CBSE," the order read.

The order came on a petition filed by Sanyam Gupta, a student who had appeared in CBSE 12th board exams held in February-March 2019 and secured 95.25 per cent. In order to improve his score, he dropped one year and decided to re-appear in Accountancy, English Core, Economics and Business Studies in the improvement examination in 2020.

However, the Business Studies exam which was scheduled to be held on March 24, was cancelled due to rising coronavirus cases in the country.

While passing the orders, the court asked the CBSE to issue a corrected mark sheet to the student. "The pandemic has affected one and all. If students have been able to appear in few examinations and for no fault of theirs, one of the examinations is getting cancelled, they should be able to score the average of their improvement scores in the improvement examination as per the scheme of the CBSE which has been approved by the Supreme Court," it said.

The SC had directed CBSE to cancel all the remaining exams for CBSE 10th and CBSE 12th class, which were earlier postponed due to coronavirus outbreak in the country. SC also asked the Board to come up with a new assessment scheme on the basis of which the CBSE 10th Results 2020 and CBSE 12th Results 2020 was announced.

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