Dubai: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the Indian education body, on Tuesday night announced the results of Grade 10 exams, ending the anxiety of thousands of students across the country.
This was the first time the results were be announced since the CBSE introduced the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation system (CCE) for Grade 10 last year.
The new report card had two main areas — scholastic and co-scholastic — in which students were assessed.
Previously, the report cards contained only the marks scored in five core subjects and assessment in three other areas.
15 categories
But now, these three areas have been divided into 15 categories such as life skills, attitudes, thinking skills, social skills, literary and scientific skills, thus allowing for a more comprehensive assessment of students.
The report cards that the students will later get from their schools will show the grades they achieved in Grades 9 and 10, the authority said.
The academic areas are graded on a nine-point scale — A1 , A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, D, E1 and E2.
Higher education
The Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) is then calculated based on the grades. A1 grades are awarded 10 points, A2 nine points, B1 eight points and so on. This way, a student who gets A1 grades in all subjects will score a CGPA of 10.
This year, for the first time, students also had the option of choosing to write exams conducted by their schools — if they were looking at pursuing their higher education at the same schools — or exams conducted by the CBSE. However, many students in the UAE chose to write the CBSE exams, schools said.
"Across the UAE, most of the pupils opted for the board exams, although it was optional. There still seems to be an aversion towards choosing exams conducted by schools," the principal of an Abu Dhabi-based school said.
Meanwhile, most schools welcomed the new evaluation system. Neelam Upadhyay, principal of the Indian School Al Ain, said that the introduction of continuous and comprehensive evaluations by the CBSE, had lowered the stress levels of Grade 10 students.
"Also, the inclusion of co-scholastic areas as part of the assessment has helped the students to upgrade their grades considerably," she said.
Nusky Jamal, the principal of the New Indian Model School Sharjah, said that the present system of evaluation provides a broad based spectrum of ranking students rather than confining it to single individuals.
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