New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking cancellation of physical exams for Class X and XII to be conducted by all State Boards, CBSE, ICSE and National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), saying such petitions give false hope to students and only create more confusion.

New Delhi Feb 22 PTI The Supreme Court Tuesday said it would hear tomorrow a plea seeking cancellation of offline board examinations for classes 10 and 12 to be conducted by the CBSE and several other boards this yearWithout completing the course how can examination be conducted a bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar orally observed after the counsel appearing for the petitioner said that although the COVID-19 situation has improved classes have not been completedThe bench also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and C T Ravikumar granted liberty to the counsel appearing for the petitioner to serve the advance copy of the plea to the standing counsel for concerned respondents including the Central Board of Secondary Education CBSEWe will list it tomorrow the bench saidThe plea filed by activist Anubha Shrivastava Sahai and others was mentioned before the apex court for urgent listingThe counsel appearing for the petitioners told the bench that the apex court had passed orders in 2020 and 2021 regarding class 10 and 12 board exams and this year also the same problem is thereLast year there was a scheme after your lordships intervention This year also we require some sort of solution otherwise this is going to drag he said adding that this will affect further admissions and future of students will be in perilThe bench asked the counsel whether the examinations have commenced or are yet to commenceThe counsel said that examination of the Madhya Pradesh board has commencedEven though the corona situation has improved the classes have not completed Unless the course is completed you should not conduct the examination This is going to delay further CBSE has not proposed any scheme he saidThe bench initially asked the counsel to serve advance copy of the plea to the standing counsel for the CBSEWhen the lawyer said he would try to serve advance copy of the petition to all the respondents the bench granted liberty to serve the standing counsel for the concerned respondentsThe plea has sought directions to the CBSE and other education boards which have proposed to hold board examinations for classes 10 and 12 in offline mode to devise alternate modes of assessmentThe CBSE has decided to conduct term two board exams for class 10 and class 12 from April 26On Monday the matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench headed by Chief Justice N V RamanaThe counsel had told the CJI-led bench that physical examination should not be conducted due to the pandemicThe bench had said that the matter would be listed before a bench headed by Justice KhanwilkarOn June 17 last year the top court had approved the assessment schemes of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations CISCE and the CBSE which had adopted the 303040 formula for evaluation of marks for students of 12th standard based on results of class 10 11 and 12 respectivelyThe CBSE had said it would evaluate class 12 students for theory based on 30 per cent marks from class 10 board 30 per cent from class 11 and 40 per cent from marks based on the performance in the unit mid-term and pre-board tests in class 12It had said that marks obtained by class 12 students in practical and internal assessment on an actual basis as uploaded by schools on the CBSE portal would be also considered in deciding the final results PTI ABA SA

New Delhi Feb 22 PTI The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would hear tomorrow a plea seeking cancellation of offline board examinations for classes 10 and 12 to be conducted by the CBSE and several other boards this yearA bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar said that advance copy of the petition be served to the standing counsel for the Central Board of Secondary Education CBSE and other respondents concernedThe plea was mentioned for urgent listing before the bench also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and C T RavikumarThe counsel appearing for petitioner Anubha Shrivastava Sahai mentioned the matter and requested the bench to list it urgentlyThe plea has sought directions to the CBSE and other education boards which have proposed to hold board examinations for classes 10 and 12 in offline mode for devising other modes of assessmentThe CBSE has decided to conduct term two board exams for class 10 and class 12 from April 26 PTI ABA DV DV

New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to list for February 23 a plea seeking cancellation of physical exams for Class X and XII to be conducted by all State Boards, CBSE, ICSE and National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).

New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea seeking cancellation of physical exams for Class X and XII to be conducted by all State Boards, CBSE, ICSE and National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).