Normalisation: ICSE students to move HC
Anahita Mukherji | TNN
Mumbai: The state government’s hurriedly announced ‘marks normalisation scheme’—which aims to put Class X marks of the SSC board on par with the national boards—may have to face a legal hurdle. A group of parents from ICSE schools are all set to move the Bombay high court as they feel the new scheme is unfair to ICSE students and gives an undue advantage to SSC students.
The state brought out a resolution on the marks equalisation scheme late on Friday night, when the admission process to junior college had already begun. This scheme is in response to the general perception that SSC students lose out as the national boards are more liberal.
Parents from the ICSE board are up in arms against the new scheme as they feel this is “absurd and discriminatory’’.“We have appointed a wellknown lawyer to represent us,’’ said one of the parents. “How can the government come up with such a scheme based on the perception that SSC students lose out to other boards, without any hard data to back their claim? The ICSE board is a lot tougher and more challenging than the SSC board.How can the scores in very different boards be put on par? Not only is the curriculum different for both boards, but the entire system of marking is different,’’ says an irate parent.
College principals too told TOI that they felt the state government’s new move was a cosmetic change with no real substance.
LEVEL PLAYING COLLEGE FIELD?
According to the marks normalisation scheme, the average of the top ten scores in a particular board is calculated. Then the scores of a student from the same board is divided by this average. This number is then multiplied by 100 to arrive at the “normalised’’ score.
A=Average of the top ten scores from your board
M= The marks you scored
P=M/A x 100. This will be your normalised score
The state brought out a resolution on the marks equalisation scheme late on Friday night, when the admission process to junior college had already begun. This scheme is in response to the general perception that SSC students lose out as the national boards are more liberal.
Parents from the ICSE board are up in arms against the new scheme as they feel this is “absurd and discriminatory’’.“We have appointed a wellknown lawyer to represent us,’’ said one of the parents. “How can the government come up with such a scheme based on the perception that SSC students lose out to other boards, without any hard data to back their claim? The ICSE board is a lot tougher and more challenging than the SSC board.How can the scores in very different boards be put on par? Not only is the curriculum different for both boards, but the entire system of marking is different,’’ says an irate parent.
College principals too told TOI that they felt the state government’s new move was a cosmetic change with no real substance.
LEVEL PLAYING COLLEGE FIELD?
According to the marks normalisation scheme, the average of the top ten scores in a particular board is calculated. Then the scores of a student from the same board is divided by this average. This number is then multiplied by 100 to arrive at the “normalised’’ score.
A=Average of the top ten scores from your board
M= The marks you scored
P=M/A x 100. This will be your normalised score
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