Patna, July 20: The Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) certificates of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) would soon be in students’ hands.

CBSE regional officials said the certificates have reached the capital and would be dispatched to various schools after July 23. This is the first time that students who had taken the Class X board examination (CBSE) would receive the certificates instead of marksheets.

The certificates would have grades for all their assessments. The certificate would carry grades of all internal assessments as well as summative assessment (SA) II conducted in classes IX and X.

School authorities, students and parents can heave a sigh of relief.

CBSE regional deputy director K.K. Jain told The Telegraph: “We have received the certificates on Tuesday and we now have to distribute them. In all, there are 110 packets, which would require time to be classified. It would take another three to four days to classify the certificates, after which we would dispatch them. After July 23, we will be sending them to various schools.”

According to sources, it took CBSE more time to print the CCE certificates owing to the delay in the grading system though the results for Patna region were out on June 10. The delay was not only witnessed in Patna region (Bihar and Jharkhand) but across the country. Now CBSE schools across the country would gradually hand over the certificates to their students.

The delay in CCE certificates, in turn, caused difficulties to students during admissions in Class XI. Students were asked to produce transfer certificates (TCs) to take admission in Class XI. School principals could not provide the TCs to the students before having a look at the original CCE certificates because they could not rely upon those available on the Internet. According to sources, the results on the Internet can be procured easily. Some school principals had issued provisional TCs to the students. Arguments were witnessed between parents and school authorities for not providing the TCs.

Students, who had taken admissions in institutions outside the state on the basis of provisional admissions, also had to face problems. They were continuously asked to produce the CCE certificates, especially those who had switched over to some other board.

A school principal said: “We are relieved after hearing the news. We can now issue the CCE certificates to our students and at the same time, ask for same from those students who have come from other schools. After all, it is a formality which has to be followed.”