CBSE 12th Result 2021: Board Asks Schools to Moderate Marks, Here's What it Means
News 18The Central Board of Secondary Education has opened the result portal to calculated class 12 results from July 16 to July 22 till midnight to allow schools to complete the moderation of class 10 and 11 marks. Moderating marks of class 11 and 12 will be a “great responsibility” which has to be done in a manner to ensure “justice and fairness” to students, said CBSE in its official circular. Asking schools to mandatorily moderate marks, CBSE said, “no student should suffer because of any unequal application of policy within a school or across schools.” What is Moderation? “The historical performance of the school, in terms of the best overall performance in the previous three years’ board examination, will be taken as the reference for moderating marks assessed by the school 2020-2021,” stated CBSE document and explained further that if in a specific school, the overall average of the students in 2017-2018 is 72 per cent, in 2018-2019 is 74 per cent and in 2019-20, it is 71 per cent, the school will use the subject wise averages of 2018-19 for moderation, “which are the highest for moderation.” The selected year will be the reference year for the school. They will, therefore, have to restrict the number of students at each level of overall marks from 95 and above, to ensure that this number is not more than the number of students scoring overall marks, as per the best historic performance if the last three years,” CBSE said in the official circular.