KOLKATA: The Central Board of Secondary Education is trying its best to ensure that schools do not give generous marking to candidates. It has once again asked schools to be careful about giving marks beyond 96% to its students and moderate it to ensure that the number of candidates scoring 96-100 doesn’t exceed the reference year when the school had performed its best. A circular sent to school heads on Wednesday explains how the moderation is to be done.
Schools have to complete the moderation and send marks to the Board by July 25. According to sources, many schools made an overzealous effort to inflate marks and the Board is scrutinising every detail of it, so that there is no dilution. “In case of 96-100% score, number of students should be “exactly” similar to reference year,” the circular says.
“The present method is a sincere endeavour to bring a balance between the present online examination and historical trends of result of such physical examination earlier,” said Vijaya Chowdhury, principal of BDM International School.
