Parents contented with CBSE assessment scheme for students

Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar , July 13

City parents seemed to be satisfied with the way average score was calculated for the students whose exams could not be conducted owing to Covid-19 outbreak. Most parents said their children would have scored more or less the same marks in those subjects and that their overall percentage would have largely remained the same.

Regarding the overall marking scheme, Police DAV Public School principal Rashmi Vij said she was surprised to see so many students getting 100 on 100 in English. On the average assessment system used by the board, she said, “The CBSE’s system of calculating the average score has somehow gone down well with the parents. It seems more of being unchallengeable as most parents are satisfied with it as they feel that their children have suffered no major loss. It is only the parents of the students who had both Punjabi and geography paper left who rued how both the exams could have helped their wards jack up their overall result had they sat for the exam.”

Delhi Public School principal Ritu Kaul opines, “The average scheme has been more beneficial for the students of music and dance who scored 100 on 100 in these subjects. Despite the fact that these optional subjects are more practical based, the high percentage scored in these subjects has helped children get a high average in the exam that they had to miss because of Covid-19. Those who instead chose mathematics or economics as additional subjects instead of the practical subjects have been at little loss.”

Even some parents echoed the same feeling. For instance, Charanpreet Kaur, mother of Jasika Walia, says, “My daughter who was in MGN Public School Urban Estate has scored 97.8 per cent in CBSE. She has got average marks in two subjects - business studies as well as IP. Her marks in additional subject such as mathematics have been counted for average and hence she might have fallen back by 1 or 2 marks than those who had chosen painting, music or dance in which students have got very high score. In DU and other colleges, every mark counts and it may affect us in some way.”

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