Petitioners cannot claim comprehensive scorecard of entire Class 10: CBSE  to SC

In a response to a plea filed by class 10 graduates from Odisha, CBSE has told the top court that petitioners are not entitled to claim detailed scorecards of all class 10 students of their school.

The CBSE has informed the Supreme Court that a comprehensive scorecard for the entire class cannot be issued to certain students who cleared class 10 and claim that an Odisha-based school refused because it needed to "conceal its malpractices" in assigning marks. An enquiry committee consisting of three members had found out in its August last year inquiry report that the school had prepared class 10 results in accordance with the tabulation policy, said the CBSE in affidavit filed in the Supreme Court.

The petition which has been filed by 24 students who cleared class 10 from an Odisha school seeks direction to the CBSE to review and declare fresh results for them according to the board's evaluation policy of May 1, 2021 post obtaining the correct records from the school.

Further, the petition which has been filed by advocate Ravi Prakash has asked the Supreme Court to direct an inquiry against the school, "for illegally demanding money and putting undue pressure to take admission in class 11 in the same school to get good scores in class 10."

The CBSE controller of examinations has said in an affidavit that the student petitioners are not entitled to obtain the whole class 10 attendance sheet for each examination and subject.

"I, therefore, submit that the petitioners are entitled to know their internal assessment marks, the highest average in the preceding three years and the marks assigned by the result committee to them, from their school," reads the affidavit.

It states further, "but that does not mean that they can claim the attendance sheet, report of result committee and detailed scorecard of all the students of class X of their school."

It was also informed that a letter alleging that the school had reduced the scores of the petitioners in class 10 while awarding poor performing students with good marks was submitted by the petitioners to the board in August of last year.