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The Government Schools Teachers’ Association (GSTA) connected Friday (May 29, 2026) wrote to Education Minister Ashish Sood to retreat each amusement origin notices and memorandums issued to teachers regarding the driblet successful the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 Board marks walk percentage.
The missive said that the CBSE implemented the On-Screen Marking (OSM) strategy successful the year, “without capable mentation and applicable assessment”. “GSTA had earlier suggested that the strategy should initially beryllium introduced lone arsenic a aviator task and, aft analysing its results and applicable feasibility, beryllium implemented comprehensively from the adjacent world session. However, the aforesaid was not considered,” the missive said.
During the valuation process, respective superior method and applicable issues were reported by evaluators and teachers of antithetic subjects, including blurred scanned reply sheets, uploading of incorrect reply booklets, missing pages of reply sheets, and difficulties successful speechmaking scripts owed to mediocre handwriting of students, arsenic per the GSTA.
“In specified circumstances, evaluators and acrophobic officials adopted excessive caution to debar immoderate error, which consequently resulted successful unusually strict marking successful galore cases,” the missive said.
After the declaration of Class XII results, a ample fig of complaints were received from students and parents regarding marks being importantly little than expected. Many students applied for re-evaluation and besides faced method difficulties during the exertion process, and the CBSE Class XII results this twelvemonth witnessed an wide diminution astatine the nationalist level compared to erstwhile years, the GSTA said.
“GSTA firmly believes that each teacher performs his/her duties with implicit dedication, sincerity, and work towards students. School Heads besides continuously show world show passim the year, and peculiar measures specified arsenic remedial classes, other classes, and parent-teacher interactions are regularly conducted for weaker students. However, each pupil possesses antithetic learning abilities and intelligence capacities, and ultimately, the introspection effect is based upon the idiosyncratic show of the student,” the missive said, adding that holding teachers solely liable for specified outcomes is neither just nor justified.
“GSTA, therefore, humbly requests that the diminution successful Class XII results this twelvemonth beryllium viewed successful the discourse of the shortcomings of the OSM strategy and that nary teacher should beryllium held liable for the same. Further, each Show Cause Notices and Memorandums issued to teachers nether directions of higher authorities whitethorn kindly beryllium treated arsenic null and void,” the missive said.
On Thursday (May 28, 2026), taking work for the issues that person cropped up with the caller OSM valuation process utilized by the CBSE, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan connected Thursday (May 28, 2026) said that strict enactment volition beryllium taken against anyone recovered intentionally liable for irregularities affecting students.
