Evaluation norms go down well

The best possible option given a year of uncertainty: teachers

The evaluation criteria announced by the Tamil Nadu government for the Class 12 results have been welcomed by a majority of teachers and headmasters. They have said this is the best possible option given a year of uncertainty the students have gone through. Government school teachers have welcomed the decision to give more weightage to Class 10 marks over Class 11 and 12. “There are around 6 lakh students at government and aided schools who were to take up the board exams this year. For many of them from schools in rural areas, no assessments took place except when they came back to schools for a while in January in Class 12,” said Patric Raymond, general secretary, Tamil Nadu Graduate Teachers Federation. With both the Central Board of Secondary Education and the State Board having accorded some weightage to the Class 11 scores, the focus is also on the need for students to work consistently through both years of higher secondary education.