How CBSE’S Grading System Works?

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How CBSES Grading System Works ?
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• All students are now awarded grades, not marks.
• The practice of declaring Compartment/Fail has
  been discontinued.
• The result of students is now declared in two
  categories
• - Eligible for qualifying certificate (QUAL)
• - Eligible for improvement of performance
  (EIOP)
• All students, even if they are failed in all
  subjects will now have five chances to improve
  their performance without having to repeat a year.

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THE NEW ORDER
With Board exams being made optional from the
academic year 2010-11, a new system of evaluation
Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)
based on grades has been approved. It comprises
formative and summative assessment of the student
to be done over two terms first and second
-during the year-long academic calendar. In CCE
we will have two parts.
1. Summative Assessment 2. Formative
Assessment
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Summative Assessment
Based on the term-end examination

• There will be two evaluations each in the first
  and second terms.
• The first term-end exam will carry 20 marks.
• The second term-end exam will carry 40 marks.

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Formative Assessment
To evaluate and grade class work, homework,
assignment and project work
????There will be one term-end exam for each
term. ? Each evaluation will carry 10 marks
apiece.
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CBSE Grade Card
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Advantages of Grading System
The New Scheme of Grading has been introduced
with the aim that

• It will minimize misclassification of students on
  the basis of marks.
• It will eliminate unhealthy competition among
  high achievers.
• It will reduce societal pressure and will provide
  the learner with more flexibility.
• It will lead to a focus on a better learning
  environment.
• It will facilitate joyful and stress free
  learning.

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Awarding of grades has number of advantages over
awarding of numerical marks. It considerably
reduces inter and intra examiners variability in
marking.
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It also takes care of imperfection of tools used
for assessment. Statistical research in
assessment techniques indicates that there is a
possibility of variation of scores awarded to
individuals to the extent of to 15.
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