The State Government on Tuesday decided to introduce a new pattern for the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) for conduct of the annual High School Certificate (HSC) examinations from 2014.
The revamped system would help reduce stress level of students and inculcate competitive attitude among them, said School and Mass Education Minister Rabi Narayan Nanda.
Now, a Gradation system would be introduced in place of Division with the answer-sheets being evaluated on nine-point grades.
Students scoring marks between 92-100 would be awarded Grade A while those having 81-90 marks would be given Grade B, 71-80 marks Grade-C, 61-70 marks Grade D, 51-60 marks Grade E, 41-50 marks Grade F, 31-40 marks Grade G, 21-30 marks Grade-H and students having 11-20 marks would be given Grade-I. The Grades-H and I students would be given “unsatisfactory” remark in their certificates.
However, the mark-sheets would be provided to the students to facilitate admission in colleges.
Nanda said the BSE would prepare annual HSC examination calendar and every year the examinations would be held in February and the results would be published in April.
Stating that the revaluation of answer-sheets would be allowed within seven days of the announcement of the results, Nanda said teachers and officials found guilty in wrong entry of marks would be punished with fines.
For the first time, the students would get a chance to appeal for revaluation of the answer-sheets, he said.
Nanda said that while 50 per cent of the questions would be objective type with a multiple choice system, the rest 50 per cent would be subjective type requiring long answers. The objective answers would be evaluated through the Optial Mark Recognition Method, he said.
It was decided to instal CCTV cameras in sensitive examination centres and 50 per cent of the teachers of a particular centre would be deployed in another examination centre to maintain impartiality and fairness in conduct of examinations.
Nanda said the schools having sound infrastructures would be allowed as examination centres and the students of these schools can appear at the examinations in their schools.