Evaluation criteria class 10 and 12 -- What is in store

Evaluation criteria for classes 10 and 12 has been proposed today by the Govt. where weightage is given to performance in classes 10, 11 and internal performance of class 12.

On one hand it defines a criteria for mapping students and their consistemce in academics over the past three years in their education, but on the other, it also puts the science students who focussed on NEET or IIT entrance examinations at some inconvenience.
Lets evaluate some case scenarios here

1) Students who focussed completely on IIT and NEET exams after class 10th
This set of students normally don't prepare for 12 class board examinations till Dec and then focus on their writing skills in Jan and Feb as they already are equipped with the knowledge, but need to hone their writing skills. They practised this during their class 11 and now in 12 as well. They surely will see a sizeable drop in their marks because of lesser marks in their internal evaluations after class 10

2) Students who have been hard workers and done as per schooling norms
This set is a teacher's darling set of students who have done everything as desired by the norms laid by academic fraternity and the teachers. They would have fared consistently fine in all their evaluations in classes 10, 11 or 12 for that matter and would be at their same relative levels in class as they deserve to be.

Students who are preparing for entrance examinations based admissions may not have an immediate impact on their admissions so long as they clear the benchmark of admissions to the various tests. The challenge will be faced by the students who apply for colleges based on their class 12 marks. Earlier when question paper was evaluated by a standard process by one central body, there was a parity in evaluating and individual biases of test evaluators and content of paper were completely irrelevant. Now, this proposed evaluation system will create a disharmony as many schools as a practice, make stricter evaluation for class 11 and internal assessments of class 12 so that children could put on more effort and work harder to obtain more marks in board examinations.

Though something needs to be worked out for well being of students currently in 12th class, we believe that the courts and academic fraternities should look at creating a Normalisation procedure so that the scores of children from different schools could have some sort of uniform standard for class 12 score calculations, otherwise there could be a case that a school with stricter internal marking may hamper the growth of a child as compared to another school with easier internal marking easing out things even for their mediocre level students.

Some normalisation has to happen to ensure a level playing field