2 months ago
June 1, 2010
Bloggossurrection
I am gonna be resurrecting my old blog. While this blog will be news commentary, the resurrected one will be a more personal blog. Enjoy. :)
CBSE GPA system
The CBSE boards decided to change the normal marks and percentage system to the grade point average(GPA) system this year. It is a move that should be welcomed with open arms and that every education board should follow.
With the GPA system differences in a couple of marks are not highlighted and a consistent all round performance is promoted. You score anywhere between 91-100 and you get an A1 grade which is the top most grade. Score A1 in all subjects and you get a 10 point CGPA, which is awesome!
Many parents, teachers, principals and even students are confused regarding how the percentile ranking works. Like it was mentioned in the news paper that a child was perplexed that she got 10 points and yet had a 97.6 percentile.
For those who don't know what percentile ranking is: A percentile rank of X% means, that X% of students who appeared for that exam scored below you.
Now coming to that child's doubt. Your course has 6 subjects. Each subject is given a priority. One probable priority order is: Maths, Science, English, 6th subject, Social, 2nd language. So if you have got the same GPA then your marks in Maths are used as a tie breaker. If Math marks are same, then Science marks are compared. So on until you get a difference. On the off chance that all marks in all subjects are same, I think you are ranked alphabetically or randomly. Thus even though you have 10 point CGPA, unless you got 100 in all subjects, your percentile rank will be lower (than someone who topped the highest priority subjects).
Hope this clarifies the doubt. Also hope that all other education boards take this step and convert to a CGPA system. With so many people scoring 9+ points, the concept of toppers is not there. With no toppers, no advertisement of toppers, less pressure from parents and the school on students and hence less suicide amongst students. Everybody wins.
With the GPA system differences in a couple of marks are not highlighted and a consistent all round performance is promoted. You score anywhere between 91-100 and you get an A1 grade which is the top most grade. Score A1 in all subjects and you get a 10 point CGPA, which is awesome!
Many parents, teachers, principals and even students are confused regarding how the percentile ranking works. Like it was mentioned in the news paper that a child was perplexed that she got 10 points and yet had a 97.6 percentile.
For those who don't know what percentile ranking is: A percentile rank of X% means, that X% of students who appeared for that exam scored below you.
Now coming to that child's doubt. Your course has 6 subjects. Each subject is given a priority. One probable priority order is: Maths, Science, English, 6th subject, Social, 2nd language. So if you have got the same GPA then your marks in Maths are used as a tie breaker. If Math marks are same, then Science marks are compared. So on until you get a difference. On the off chance that all marks in all subjects are same, I think you are ranked alphabetically or randomly. Thus even though you have 10 point CGPA, unless you got 100 in all subjects, your percentile rank will be lower (than someone who topped the highest priority subjects).
Hope this clarifies the doubt. Also hope that all other education boards take this step and convert to a CGPA system. With so many people scoring 9+ points, the concept of toppers is not there. With no toppers, no advertisement of toppers, less pressure from parents and the school on students and hence less suicide amongst students. Everybody wins.
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