NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, JUNE 26
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday announced the evaluation criteria for class 12 students in the state, giving 50 per cent weightage to class 10 board examination scores.
The government had earlier announced cancellation of exams to the Plus Two board for 2020-2021 due to the covid-19 pandemic.
பன்னிரண்டாம் வகுப்புத் தேர்வுகள் #Covid19 காரணமாக ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளதால் 10, 11, 12 வகுப்புகளின் அடிப்படையில் மதிப்பெண்கள் கணக்கிடும் முறை அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
அனைத்து மாணவர்களும் தங்களது இலட்சியங்களையும், இலக்குகளையும் அடைய எனது உளப்பூர்வமான வாழ்த்துகள்! pic.twitter.com/zS00aa3RlB
— M.K.Stalin (@mkstalin) June 26, 2021
Later, the government constituted a committee comprising officials including the Principal Secretary of the Department of Higher Education, the Vice Chancellor of Madras University and the headmasters of schools to submit a report to the government on the system of evaluating marks for students.
Accordingly, the 10-member committee recommended the evaluation criteria with different weightage.
The chief minister announced how the Plus Two results will be computed this year.
An official release quoting the Chief Minister Stalin said 50 per cent weightage will be given to class X board exam marks (average of three subjects with high marks) while 20 per cent (written in each subject) weightage will be accorded to Plus One board exam and 30 per cent will be given to Class 12 practicals and internal assessment.
The students who have failed in Class 11 will be given 35 percent marks.
The marks of each student will be computed in the above manner and published on the Department’s website by July 31 as per the order of the Supreme Court.
Also, the government said it would provide an opportunity to the aggrieved students, who otherwise felt they could have scored more had they written the exam, to appear for the examinations conducted after the pandemic.
‘Students who feel that they have obtained less marks as was calculated through this evaluation criteria will be given an opportunity to appear for the Class 12 written examination if they wish. The marks they score in the examinations so conducted will be declared as final,’ the release said.
The exam will be conducted in due course once the pandemic subsides. The timetable for this examination will be announced later, the release said.
