A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh advanced the date of hearing in the petition from August 28 after the NGO, 'Justice for All', moved an application for an early hearing.
The Delhi High Court will hear a petition concerning the calculation of CBSE class 10 marks on July 9.
Advocate Khagesh Jha, appearing for the NGO that filed the complaint, said the petition was not adversarial but raised a serious issue of using ‘historical background as the biggest factor in marking scheme’ for CBSE class 10 students.
The NGO, in its application, stated that once the process of uploading of students’ marks and preparation of results was over, the petition would become pointless.
Counsel for the CBSE, Rupesh Kumar, told the court however that nothing survived in the society’s petition as the majority of schools had already uploaded the marks of their students.
“His case is in view of lockdown, results committee can’t be constituted. There are 21,000 schools. 62 are remaining to upload marks. The petition is of no use”, he said.
The high court had on June 2 sought response of the centre, Delhi government and CBSE on the NGO’s petition claiming that the policy of the board for calculating marks of class 10 students based on the internal assessment by schools was unconstitutional and required to be modified.
In its petition, the NGO said, “The policy of moderating the average marks assessed by the school, based on the historical performance of the previous average result of the school, in terms of the best overall performance of the school would be an injustice to the students as the performance of the school is not relatable in any manner with the performance of the student.”
It said moderating the marks in consonance with the overall average score of the district, national and state average “was absolutely unreasonable, illogical and punitive for the students of a school which would appear in the board exams for the first time”, with no previous data of performance.
The NGO has alleged that it can also lead to the manipulation of marks and exploitation, extortion of the students and parents.
CBSE will release the CBSE 10th result 2021 by July 20 on the official website.
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