NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Centre and CBSE to cancel the remaining Class X and XII examinations that could not be conducted due to the coronavirus pandemic and approved the Board’s scheme to award marks to students for the cancelled papers, based on their performance in previous exams held before the Covid situation worsened. The results will be out by July 15.
Hearing pleas seeking scrapping of exams for rising Covid-19 infections, a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna directed CBSE to issue the notification to implement its assessment scheme. It granted a week’s time to ICSE to make its scheme public after the Board contended that it is considering a formulation that is a bit different from CBSE.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and CBS