The board has decided to implement overall 33 per cent pass mark criteria for this batch of students only they would not need to secure 33 per cent separately in board exams and internal assessments.
"The examination committee of the board in its meeting held on February 16 after considering the circumstances and the facts that the current batch of class X (2018) is coming from a different assessment background while they were in class IX (in 2017) resolved to approve the following for this batch as a one-time measure," an official notification said.
The class 10 exams will be mandatory from this year after a gap of seven years. The Human Resource Development Ministry had made the board examination for class 10 optional from 2010-11 batch.
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