NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class XII results, which were declared on Friday, reflected a dip in the number of high scorers this year. Several school principals said that apart from the Covid-19 pandemic affecting the teaching-learning process, the decreased importance of board examination results for college admissions could also be a factor behind this trend.
AK Jha, principal of Government Co-Ed Sarvodyaya Vidyalaya, Rohini Sector-8, said that students had strategised before appearing for the board exams.
“Some students got very involved in preparing for the CUET, JEE and NEET. There are students who have scored a 100 in chemistry or biology, but they have scored in the 70s in English. This is because they concentrated only on the subjects they will require for their entrance tests. It is possible that next year, there will be a further dip in the percentage of high scorers,” Jha explained.
Tania Joshi, principal of The Indian School, further added, “Once the students know that these marks are not important for admissions, the entire orientation changes and it becomes entrance-oriented. This is the reason why some importance should be given to the board results as well. However, in our school, there are 22 students who got 100 marks in various subjects.”
Stating that the pandemic also left its impact on the results to an extent, Mount Abu Public School principal Jyoti Arora said, “The decreased number of high scorers can be attributed to the pandemic. Students not only went through personal losses but there were other factors as well. There were long periods of lockdown and the teaching-learning process was highly affected. This batch of students returned to classrooms only later and technology cannot really replace actual classroom teaching.”
