KOLKATA: The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education will declare the results of Madhyamik 2021 on Tuesday. There would be no merit list because the examination had been cancelled and the marks have been calculated on the basis of a formula that was earlier announced. More than 11 lakh examinees are expecting their Madhyamik results this time.
The results of the higher secondary (HS) examinations will be out on Thursday.
After the board formally announces the results at 9am on Tuesday, candidates will be able to see their individual scores on 12 websites from 10am. The details of the websites were announced by board president Kalyanmoy Ganguly on Friday. Since the exam was cancelled this year, no admit cards were issued. However, these will be given along with mark sheets from 49 distribution centres from where schools will have to collect them on Tuesday itself. Students will, however, not be allowed to come to school to collect their mark sheets. Only parents will be allowed.
Once candidates log on to any of the 12 websites, they will be asked to fill in their registration number and date of birth to see their results.
To arrive at individual results, the board has used the annual exam marks of Class IX and the internal formative assessment marks of Class X exams. Equal weightage (50% to both IX and X performance) has been given to both. However, if a candidate is not satisfied with the marks, he or she will be allowed to write a test after the Covid situation improves.
“For Class X, there is no reason for children to be tense because they are still within the school system and have already started their class XI studies. They should understand that this is the best that could have been done in a pandemic,” said Sunita Sen, principal of Ballygunj Shiksha Sadan.
Rijula Chakraborty, a Class X student, did not hide the fact that despite assurances from every quarter, she was extremely tense. “With our Class IX marks coming into consideration and the internal formative assessments gaining a lot of weightage, we are all nerves because we really don’t know how we will fare,” she said.
