The state higher secondary council has announced that schools will have to submit Class XI marksheets to the council in November.
This year, in the absence of the board exams, the Class XI marks were considered to determine the scores of HS examinees.
A notice issued by council president Chiranjeeb Bhattacharya says: “The mark sheets would have to be sent to the regional offices of the council from November 11 to 29 in the form of a hard copy only.”
Class XI students who could not write the annual exams this year because of the pandemic will be evaluated on the basis of their performance in Madhyamik 2020.
Pass marks
The HS council has brought an amendment to what would be the Class XI pass marks after weighting the scores of the candidates in Madhyamik last year.
The council had last month said the average score of the best four subjects in Madhyamik would constitute the basis of evaluation in theory papers in Class XI.
If the average score is 80 per cent in the Class X board exams, the percentage will be weighted on 70 marks that a theory paper in science subject in Class XI carries and on 80 marks that a theory paper in humanities carries.
But an amendment was required because the minimum marks to pass are not the same in Madhyamik and the HS exams and students may fail to reach the pass marks under this methodology, said a council official.
A student passes Madhyamik if he or she scores at least 25 out of 100 in each subject. A student passes Class XI annual exams or HS if he or she secures at least 30 per cent marks in theory and project/practical separately.
“If this formula is applied for those students who have passed Madhyamik obtaining 25 onwards and below 30 marks as average of best numbers of four subjects, then they will fail in the annual exam of Class- XI, said Saudipta Das, the secretary of the Collegium of assistant headmasters and headmistress, that sought the amendment.
“In case the percentage of average score in Madyamik is 28, then the weighted score in a science subject in Class XI will work out to 19.6 –short of the pass mark 21,” he said.
A notice signed by the new council president Chiranjeeb Bhattacharya says: “While preparing the marksheet of Class XI, 30 per cent at the Madhyamik Pariksha will be considered as the minimum marks”.