Now, CBSE will not display grace marks on mark sheets

NEW DELHI In a big relief to students, grace marks awarded to them will not be printed on their mark sheets as proposed by the CBSE earlier.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will follow the moderation policy and will award grace marks but the mark sheets will not display it. The board will declare the Class 12 results on Sunday.

“We will follow the directives of the high court and go ahead as per our own moderation policy, which is in place. But as decided earlier, we will not mention this (grace marks) on the mark sheet as was decided in the meeting earlier,” said a senior official.

Grace marks are given in cases where a student’s score narrowly misses the passing-mark. In April, the board along with 32 boards had taken a decision to do away with moderation and had

also decided to display grace marks on the mark sheets.

However, at that time too there were a few states that expressed apprehension over mark-sheets reflecting the grace marks, saying it could be seen as a stigma but others argued that it will be unfair for those who pass without the extra marks.

The board had earlier decided on dropping the moderation policy to “remove arbitrariness and inflation of marks” but a high court directive said moderation policy be applied for this academic session. Following this, the board took a decision not to make any changes to its moderation policy this year.