TS SSC Board Exams 2023 Passing marks reduced for these students; check details here

Children with hearing impairment, who are required to study only one language out of three, and students with other specific challenges have been exempted from studying and writing one language out of the three.

TS SSC Board Exams 2023: The government of Telangana has announced its decision to reduce the pass marks from 35 to 20 in all subjects from Classes 6 to 10 and SSC Public Exams from this academic year. The decision has come for Children with Special Needs (CwSN) and their parents along with several exemptions and concessions.

Children with hearing impairment, who are required to study only one language out of three, and students with other specific challenges have been exempted from studying and writing one language out of the three.

Passing marks reduces from 35 to 20

To this effect, the School Education department has issued the GO MS 27 as per which, qualifying and passing marks for students with intellectual challenge particularly autism spectrum disorder and mental illness have been reduced from 35 to 10. However, the pass marks for other CwSN is 20 instead of 35.

Apart from providing separate answer scripts which are thicker, certain grammatical mistakes, punctuation errors, graphs, geometry and maps will be ignored for CwSN during the examinations.

Assistive devices for Children with Special Needs to be provided during exams

They will also be provided with assistive devices such as calculators, computers, abacus, Tyler frame, magnifying glass, video magnifier, Braille slate, geometry kit, Braille measuring tape etc., as per the requirement in the examination. In the case for children with visual impairment, alternate types of questions in lieu of descriptive questions requiring visual inputs will be provided.

Extra 20 minutes for each hour

The CwSN will also get a compensatory time of 20 minutes for each hour in the examinations. For an examination with a duration of 1 hour, a compensatory time of 20 minutes will be allotted. Similarly, for a three hour examination, a compensatory time of 60 minutes will be extended.

Further, to facilitate easy access, the government has decided to do away with the jumbling process during the examination to all CwSN and allot them in the same or nearby school as per the feasibility.

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