The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Centre and the CBSE to cancel the remaining board examinations due to COVID-19 pandemic and gave a go-ahead to its scheme to award marks to students for the cancelled papers scheduled to be held in July.
The CBSE in its notification said that the exams for classes 10 and 12 which were scheduled from July 1 to 15 2020 stands cancelled. The assessment of the performance of students will be done based on the assessment scheme as suggested by the competent committee.
A special bench led by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar also allowed to make the Class 12 exams optional for students if they are held when the situation is conducive.
The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), which had proposed to go with what the CBSE decides on conducting exams, was allowed to do so. However, the autonomous examination board said it would like to make papers optional for even Class 10 students.
For students who have appeared in the exams only in 3 subjects, the average of the marks obtained in the best two performing subjects will be awarded in the subjects whose exams have not been conducted.
