CBSE to Continue with Moderation Policy, No Spiking of Marks
- All the members associated with the inter-board working group are not in favour of spiking marks in Class 10 & Class 12 board exams.
- The group also recommended CBSE to frame a sample question paper and circulate it to all the boards.
Spiking of marks in Class 10 and Class 12 board exams is likely to stop from 2018. Various school boards will go ahead with moderation policy to regulate difficulty in different sets of question paper and offer a level playing field in the evaluation process. According to sources, mark sheets of students will mention grace marks if the respective board has awarded the students. An inter-board working group headed by Chairman (outgoing) of CBSE, Mr. R K Chaturvedi made these recommendations. The inter-board working group consists of members from Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur and ICSE boards.
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The inter-board working group had convened a meeting on August 28, 2017, to discuss the recommendations. Now, the idea is to send the recommendations to the Ministry of Human Resource and Development for adoption by various states. The major responsibility of the group is to look into the issues relating to moderation policy. With an objective to ensure uniformity in the question paper of different boards, the group had also recommended the CBSE to frame a sample question paper and circulate it to all the boards.
According to inter-board working group, the sample question paper will help the state boards to decide on the number of questions to be difficult and easy. Depending on the sample question paper circulated by CBSE, state boards will start framing their own question papers. The idea will bring a greater uniformity in the evaluation system.
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The inter-board working group also clarified that the members are not in favour of spiking the marks in the board exams, as it does not reflect the actual performance of students. The group also clarified that moderation will continue to ensure proper compensation to students if there are any differences with regard to the difficulty level of the question papers as well as the overall evaluation process.