Rikita Babbar emerges district topper

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, July 16

Rikita Babbar from Pathseekers School, Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Beas, is the district topper with 98.80 per cent marks in the CBSE Class X results announced on Wednesday. She is followed by Lovejotpreet Singh, from Guru Nanak Dev Global Academy, Chananke village, near Mehta, who secured 98.60 per cent marks. In Tarn Taran district, Perneet Kaur from Mata Gujri Convent School, Sarhali Kalan, was the topper with 97 per cent marks.

CBSE Class X results this year also followed the format of Class XII results, by evaluating results according to the previous assessment and declared no merit list, given the special circumstances due to Covid-19 pandemic. But since the CGPA system of evaluation to bring out transparency has not been in practice for the past two years, schools are left to interpret the evaluation of the final result of a student, by themselves.

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‘An ambiguous system of evaluation’

“By rule, the vocational/additional subject that is offered to a student in Class X can only replace a core subject in case a child is failing or getting compartment in one of the three core subjects, ie Maths, Science and SST. But in practice, when schools declare results, a majority of them take in consideration the vocational subject to calculate the best-of-five result. There are no defined guidelines or protocol by the CBSE in this regard,” said Anita Bhalla, city co-ordinator, CBSE.

Due to this, the schools declare individual toppers through calculations of five subjects out of six. The fact that few schools count additional subject in results and others do not, creates an ambiguous process of declaring the meritorious students.