File picture of students at an examination centre in Bhubaneswar.

Bhubaneswar, May 31: Today, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared Class X results of the Chennai region. This has made students here anxiously await the announcement for the Bhubaneswar region.

Class X results were earlier expected to come out in the second week of May. But the date of publication of results was first rescheduled to May 20, and then again to May 25.

However, till now, there is no news of the publication of results in other regions. Officials at the CBSE regional office here said the compilation process was still going on and the results would be declared “within four to five days”.

Students are now getting increasingly impatient and jittery as the results were declared on May 28 last year. “This time, the date is being postponed constantly and we all are getting nervous. CBSE officials should at least inform our schools when the results would be out. Nobody is answering the CBSE helpline number either,” said Titikshya Mohanty of St Xavier’s High School, Kedargouri, here. Other students attributed the delay in publication of results to the leakage of question paper in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE).

“The CBSE conducts the AIEEE. After AIEEE papers leaked, it was involved in setting a fresh set of questions all over again, which must have affected the Class X examinations evaluation and assessment process,” said Pratikshya Sarangi, another student of a city school.

Some teachers believe the introduction of continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) system by the CBSE two years ago might be the reason for the delay in announcement of results.

“We came to learn that some schools in the interior areas have sent CCE marks of the students quite late. That is delaying the publication of results. However, students are now being awarded grades and not marks, so there is no reason for them to be nervous,” said a teacher.

The grades of students would be determined on the basis of 60 per cent marks scored by them in the internal evaluation and 40 per cent marks in the board exams. The internal evaluation includes formative (tests, assignments and projects throughout the year) and summative (two terminal exams) assessment.

“Since the results for the Chennai region was declared today, we are hoping that the results for the other regions would also be announced in a day or two,” said Prakash Panigrahi, teacher and chief media officer of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur.

This year, around 22,000 candidates had appeared for the CBSE Class X exams in the Bhubaneswar region.