BHUBANESWAR: The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) has cleared the air on the evaluation process and award of marks to students ahead of the publication of the results of the annual Higher Secondary Examination-2023.CHSE officials said the assessment will be done using two different methods and the higher mark in the two evaluation methods will be awarded to the candidates.
During the first evaluation method, 80 per cent weightage will be given to the final examination score in both theory and practical papers while 20 pc weightage will be given to quarter-end examination marks. The 20 pc weightage from the internal assessment will be based on the two best performances by the candidate out of three quarter-end examinations of Class XII. Similarly, an 80 pc weightage of total marks will be awarded on the basis of the candidate’s performance in the Plus Two final exam.
In the second method, the students’ performances will be assessed from the 100 pc marks in the final examination paper. “After this, marks of the two assessment methods will be compared and the higher mark out of the two will be awarded to the candidates,” CHSE sources said.
The Council further clarified that if a candidate has been absent in a paper in any quarter-end examination, it will be treated as ‘zero’ for the purpose of calculation. Similarly, if the candidate fails to appear for the quarter-end examination in one or more papers, the marks obtained in the annual examination will be considered final.
Meanwhile, absence in one or more papers in the final examination will affect the result and the candidate will be declared ‘fail’, officials of the Council stated. Results in commerce and science streams will most likely be published in May last week while those for arts and vocational education will be announced during the first week of June. The exact dates of publication of results will be announced at a later stage, the officials informed.