Education
Rajasthan becomes third state board to declare results with “no marks moderation” policy
With the month of May halfway through, it is the time for board exam results across the country. In the recently declared results, the education boards of Karnataka, Punjab and Rajasthan declared their results without marks moderation.
With the month of May halfway through, it is the time for board exam results across the country. In the recently declared results, the education boards of Karnataka, Punjab and Rajasthan declared their results without marks moderation. Mr. Anil Swarup, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, MHRD commended this excellent step by sharing a message on Twitter.
Rajasthan Edu Board becomes the 3rd one after K'ataka & Punjab to announce results without spiking of marks in the name of moderation. Kudos
— Anil Swarup (@swarup58) May 16, 2017
RBSE Class 12 result 2017 was declared by Rajasthan Education Minister Vasudev Devnani in Ajmer on 15th May. This year almost 2.34 lakh candidates appeared for the class 12 board exam in science stream and 48,113 candidates appeared for class 12 board exam in commerce stream.
— Vasudev Devnani (@VasudevDevnani) May 16, 2017
Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje congratulated the goverment schools for their excellent results.
It is heartening to see the improvement in RBSE results for Government schools – reinforces our vision for a #ShikshitRajasthan.
— Vasundhara Raje (@VasundharaBJP) May 15, 2017
Recently, CBSE analysed the Class XII results of all state boards for 2014, 2015 and 2016, and found that most states were not implementing the moderation policy correctly. Instead of a normal distribution or a ‘bell curve’, most state board graphs showed an abnormally large number students scoring 90% or higher. This trend has resulted in the country’s best universities setting an impossibly high eligibility bar for applicants. For the last few years, Delhi University has seen 100% cut-offs in several subjects.
The CBSE, ICSE, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and all state Boards had agreed to implement a roadmap proposed by the union government on April 24.
General information on Marks Moderation
‘Moderation’ was / is a practice adopted by many school education boards across the country to bring uniformity in the evaluation process. Marks scored by students in Class X and XII are standardized to align the marking standards of different examiners, to maintain parity in the pass percentage across years, to compensate for difficulties students may face in answering a question in the specified paper, and to make up for the differences in the difficulty levels of different sets of question papers in the same subject and also across different boards. CBSE started moderation in 1992, after it introduced multiple sets of question papers.