The Supreme Court of India on Friday accepted the Assessment Scheme presented by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The board has prepared the Assessment scheme after the exams of Class 10 and 12 were cancelled across the nation. The exams have been cancelled in the wake of coronavirus pandemic induced nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the contagion disease.
The Supreme Court bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna permitted the board to issue notification for cancellation of examinations.
Meanwhile, the ICSE board told the top court that it may give an option to write an exam at a later stage to class 10 students as well. "Averaging marks" formula is different from CBSE, it said.
ICSE's lawyer Jaideep Gupta said that "I have gone through the CBSE affidavit. Our affidavit is more or less the same. But our averaging formula is not the same as the CBSE."
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After perusing the draft notification, the apex court stated that it permits the CBSE to issue the notification. Class 10 and 12 exams of CBSE scheduled for July 1-15 will be governed by this order. CBSE and ICSE also assured the Court that the results of the exams will be declared by July 15.