Battling the Boards: Expert Answers

DON'T WORRY: As the Boards near, students and parents alike are burning the midnight oil.

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As the Boards near, students and parents alike are burning the midnight oil. Last-minute tips, best revision tactics and ways to bust exam stress and nervousness – the list of queries is long and varied. IBNLive.com organised a question-and-answer session with Viji Raj, examination expert with www.TCYonline.com, the largest teacher-student platform that offers free testing for school programs and major competitive exams.

Charulatha: Is the Board going to follow the grading system for Class 10 2008 Boards as it was mentioned last year? Will it contain marks or just grades? Can we use any gel pen for the examinations? Is it allowed?

Viji Raj: CBSE has been using the grading system for the last 3-4 years. However, grades as well as marks are reported in the result card. You can definitely use a blue and / or black gel pen for the examination.

Anubha Saxena: My school is charging Rs 2,509/-(per sub) to provide the admit card to students who were not able to pass the pre-Board exam. This action of my school is affecting us, in our concentration, and will surely affect my performance in board. Affiliation no of my school is 1030184

Viji Raj: There are two facets to this problem viz. (a) what you are expected to do and (b) what the school is expected to do?

(a) What you are expected to do – You must understand that first, the students who could not pass the pre-Board exam are at fault. If you are confident that you will be able to do it in the Boards, you along with your parents should contact the Principal; convince him / her that you have gone through the weaker links exposed in the pre-Boards (make sure you actually analyse your pre-Boards for mistakes). It may be possible that they want such an assurance from you. After all, Board results are important for a school.

(b) What the school is expected to do – It is illegal to charge any fee to grant permission for sitting the examination. Please do whatever we have suggested. However, if the school authorities do not co-operate, you have all rights to raise this issue in media.

Neha: I am a 10th standard student. My query is regarding the evaluation of the answers, which is normally done with the help of a key given to the examiners beforehand. Now, that the system of HOTS has been introduced, each one of us will be writing answers according to our perceptions, different from each other. Therefore, I would like to know how the evaluation will take place in this situation where the key following method will not be applicable.

Viji Raj: I appreciate your concern regarding the implementation of marking system. ‘HOTS’ is not something that is very new to CBSE. We have earlier also seen many questions in the Class X Boards that were designed to evaluate your higher order thinking skills. It is just that now they have officially announced and standardized it.