Highest repeat test takers are in Science as Karnataka holds three Board exams a year

Karnataka became the archetypal authorities to instrumentality a cardinal proposal of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which advocates allowing students up to 2 opportunities successful a schoolhouse twelvemonth to instrumentality Board exams.

In the 2023-24 world season, Board Exam 1 was held successful March-April with results successful May, Exam 2 successful June with results successful July, and Exam 3 successful August with results the aforesaid month. Students had the enactment of sitting for 1 Board exam, 2 oregon each three. There was nary headdress connected the fig of subjects a pupil could attempt, and a student’s last effect reflects the highest people achieved crossed each attempts. For instance, if a pupil scored 60% successful Exam 1, 75% successful Exam 2 and 65% successful Exam 3, her last people successful the taxable would beryllium 75%.

Among those retaking exams a 2nd time, much than fractional (or 65%) of Physics candidates, 62% of English candidates, 40% of Chemistry candidates, 60% of Mathematics candidates, and 25% of Biology candidates succeeded successful expanding their marks successful the respective subjects successful Exam 2.

In Class 10 (or the SSLC exam), lone astir 2.2% (or 13,948) of the 6.3 lakh candidates who passed the archetypal exam chose to look for the 2nd exam to amended their marks. Of them, astir 7,821 students – implicit fractional (or 56%)of those who appeared for betterment – were capable to amended their marks. An adjacent smaller fig (or 825) who passed Exam 1 and Exam 2, chose to instrumentality Exam 3 arsenic well. Of these students, little than fractional – astir 45% (374 students) — saw an betterment successful marks successful Exam 3.

The further attempts astatine the Class 10 Board exam led to an summation successful the wide walk percent from 73.28% successful Exam 1 to 81.65%.

Acknowledging that the effect to the further exam attempts was beneath expectations, KSEAB Chairperson N Manjushree told The Indian Express, “Since it was the archetypal year, determination was immoderate miscommunication by a fewer radical suggesting that the little people successful the repetition exams would count… this created immoderate apprehensions. Perhaps we couldn’t scope capable students to clarify that this enactment was available, fixed it was the archetypal twelvemonth of the Exam 1, 2, 3 pattern.”

Manjushree explained that the determination to present aggregate Board exams was based connected past year’s acquisition of holding a 2nd supplementary exam for Class 12 students who had failed. “Usually, we behaviour lone 1 supplementary exam. Last year, we ran a thrust to registry those who failed, for a 2nd supplementary exam. Around 95,000 students registered, and astir 80,000 took the exam. Of them, much than 30,000 passed. This meant that galore students who would different person had to hold different twelvemonth could wide the exam and prosecute higher education. That affirmative result encouraged america to instrumentality 3 exams for some Class 10 and Class 12 this year.”

Previously, KSEAB offered lone 1 supplementary exam for Class 10 and 12 students, with nary enactment to take the champion of 2 scores.

Discussing the logistics of conducting 3 Board exams a year, she explained that aggregate sets of question papers were prepared earlier Exam 1. Exam 2 results were structured to let candidates to take their champion people from the archetypal 2 attempts for admissions done the Karnataka Common Entrance Test.

This strategy of 3 exams volition beryllium offered successful the 2024-25 world league arsenic well. “Next year, we privation to implicit each 3 exams by June truthful that world nonaccomplishment tin beryllium limited. We had to bash a batch of readying successful presumption of registering the evaluators, and getting them to the valuation centres. If the valuation is done successful time, this helps successful sticking to the choky docket of conducting Exam 2 and 3. The learning this twelvemonth volition beryllium to person a good, achievable docket of timetable, evaluation, processing of results and pursuing it up 3 times,” she added.