Anahita Mukherji | TNN
Mumbai: A scrutiny of the state government’s hurriedly announced marks normalisation system, which is being used for the controversy-hit junior college admissions, reveals a glaring drawback.
The GR calls for marks normalisation across all boards, but the education department has released the averages of the top 10 scores for only the SSC, ICSE and CBSE boards. There are no guidelines for how marks should be normalised for students from other boards, many of whom apply to Mumbai’s junior colleges.
The normalisation system was rammed through by the education department the night admissions began on June 27. It sought to put the scores from various boards on an equal platform, so that admissions could be conducted in a fair manner. However,
while the government gave averages to help calculate the normalised scores of SSC, ICSE and CBSE students, it appeared to have completely forgotten that students from other boards also seek admissions.
In the absence of any clear guidelines on what to do if students from other boards—like the Gujarat board, the Kolkata board or the international IGCSE board—apply, most Mumbai colleges are simply going by such students’ overall percentages. So the normalised scores of SSC, ICSE and CBSE students are being compared to the actual percentages of students from other boards. This is akin to comparing apples with oranges, said some Mumbai college principals.
Education secretary Sanjay Kumar agreed that comparing normalised scores to overall percentages was unfair, but said no such case had been brought to his notice.
Mumbai: A scrutiny of the state government’s hurriedly announced marks normalisation system, which is being used for the controversy-hit junior college admissions, reveals a glaring drawback.
The GR calls for marks normalisation across all boards, but the education department has released the averages of the top 10 scores for only the SSC, ICSE and CBSE boards. There are no guidelines for how marks should be normalised for students from other boards, many of whom apply to Mumbai’s junior colleges.
The normalisation system was rammed through by the education department the night admissions began on June 27. It sought to put the scores from various boards on an equal platform, so that admissions could be conducted in a fair manner. However,
while the government gave averages to help calculate the normalised scores of SSC, ICSE and CBSE students, it appeared to have completely forgotten that students from other boards also seek admissions.
In the absence of any clear guidelines on what to do if students from other boards—like the Gujarat board, the Kolkata board or the international IGCSE board—apply, most Mumbai colleges are simply going by such students’ overall percentages. So the normalised scores of SSC, ICSE and CBSE students are being compared to the actual percentages of students from other boards. This is akin to comparing apples with oranges, said some Mumbai college principals.
Education secretary Sanjay Kumar agreed that comparing normalised scores to overall percentages was unfair, but said no such case had been brought to his notice.
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