Matric students of Odisha to be evaluated in three ways, final marks to be on basis of best of three- Education News

Students will be evaluated in three different ways for matric or high school certificate (HSC) examination this year. Marks and grades will be awarded on the basis of the best of three outcomes.

This was announced by Chief secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra on Friday. He said the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), the government agency which holds the matric examination and publishes its results, had conducted a meeting with stakeholders like teachers, students, parents and educationists on the issue of holding examination and publication of its result. According to the findings of the meeting, Summative Assessment-II (SA-II) examination will be conducted for the matric students via offline mode from April 29 to May 6 to evaluate performance of the students during the second half of the course period.

Summative Assessment-I (SA-I) was conducted for four days starting from January 5 this year. Besides, internal assessment tests have been conducted during the course period. The BSE finally suggested that matric students will be evaluated in three different ways. According to the first method, weightage of SA-I along with internal assessment will be doubled for the results. In the second method, weightage of SA-II will be doubled to get the results.Third method is an alternative assessment. It will be done by taking 30 percent of SA-I, 20 percent of internal assessment and 50 percent of SA-II. Marks and grades will be awarded on the basis of the best of three outcomes subject-wise.

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