Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE has submitted its evaluation criteria for Class 12 result 2021 with the Supreme Court. The board has proposed to use Class 10, 11 and 12 marks to compute the final marks for the students. Also, the marks scored by students would be moderated on the basis of the school’s historical performance. Here is a look at CBSE Marking Scheme to explain how CBSE would award marks to Class 12 students.

Students may please note that the assessment/ marking scheme shared is only provisional. The Supreme Court has given its in principal nod and not recommended any changes. The apex court, however, has asked the board to declare the result by July 31 and ensure a redressal system.

CBSE Class 12 Result 2021 Marking Scheme: How marks would be calculated (explained)

To understand, students may please note that the final score of CBSE subjects has two component – theory and practical. Depending on the subject, the practical component varies from 50 marks to 20 marks. For the purpose of computation of Class 12 Results, the practical marks scored by students would be taken as it is.

For the theory component, which conversely would be of 50 marks to 80 marks, CBSE has proposed a 30:30:40 ratio split. In other words, to calculate the marks of Class 12 theory papers, schools would give 30% weight to Class 10, 30% to Class 11 and 40% to Class 12.

It is again reiterated that only the theory marks would be calculated with the formula of 30:30:40. The practical marks scored by the students would be taken as it is. The same is tabulated below.

30% of Class 10

Also, for Class 10 marks, CBSE would take the average marks of best three performing subjects. What is important to remember is that only the theory paper marks would be considered. To explain it further, let’s consider the Class 10 marksheet below.

Now, as per the given marks, the student has best performance in English, Science and Social. The average marks for the Class 10 component would be (74+70+68)/3 which would be 70.67 and not (94+90+88)/3 which is 90.67. Now, these marks would be then scaled on the basis of whether the theory was for 80 marks or 70 or 50.

For an 80-mark paper, the 70.67 would then be converted to marks out of 24 or 70.67 of 24, which would come out as 21.2 marks. Similarly, for a subject like Physics, where the theory if out of 70, the calculation of Class 10 marks would be out of 21, which would be 18.55 marks and so on.

30% of Class 11

This is rather a straightforward calculation. Schools have to consider only the final score of the theory component of the subjects chosen by the student. While the average score of Class 10 was taken as one score, for Class 11, the schools would take the final marks of Class 11 exams in that particular subject and compute it.

So, say a student scored 65 out of 80 in English in Class 11, for the tabulation purposes, the school would take the same score. For this, the student would 19.5 out of 24 in the final tabulation.

40% of Class 12

For Class 12, the result committee set by school would decide the marks that would be considered. The schools may consider a weighted average of mid-terms and pre-boards or only the pre-board result. This again, would be the marks scored in theory. Now, again, for convenience, let us presume the school decide to take the average score of student’s pre-board examination only.

Now, taking an example again, say out of 80 the student scored 70 in English in the pre-board exams. Now, school would compute these marks out of 40% or 32, which comes out to be 28.

How final CBSE Class 12 Result would be tabulated.

Now, taking the same example as mentioned above, the Class 12 marks for the student in English, say if he scored 20 in practical examinations, would be as follow.

Students and parents may please note that this is only a tentative plan. The marks provided above are only for reference. Also, the criteria for class 12 would differe from school to school. Furthermore, once the score is calculated, the same would then be subjected to moderation, like in Class 10 where the result of the school of past three years would be considered.