Supreme Court Directs State Boards To Declare Internal Assessment Results By July 31

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the state boards to declare internal assessment results of Class 12 examination by July 31.

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed all the state boards to declare results of internal assessment of Class 12 examination by July 31, making it clear that each board is free to formulate its own evaluation method for students and there can’t be a "fit-all" scheme. The top court, which said it would not pass any direction for a uniform assessment scheme across the country for students whose board exams have been cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic, directed the state boards to ensure that schemes are formulated and notified at the earliest and not later than 10 days from Thursday. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari observed that each board is autonomous and they will have to evolve their own scheme for assessment. “We direct all the state boards to ensure that the schemes are formulated and notified at the earliest and not later than 10 days from today and also declare the results of internal assessment by July 31, 2021, which is the time-line specified for CBSE and ICSE boards in terms of our order dated June 22..,” the bench said in its order. The top court was hearing a plea which has sought directions to the states not to hold board exams because of the pandemic.