The Federal Board has issued a notification regarding the promotion policy for the matric (SSC) and Intermediate (HSSC) exams 2020. The board has approved the selection criteria in a meeting held on 03 July 2020. In the meeting, the board selected promotion criteria according to the Inter-Provincial Education Minister’s Conferences and the Boards of Governors’ decisions.
Promotion criteria for SSC and HSSC
Here we will discuss those aspects of promotion policy on which both IPEMC and BoG are agreed.
- Category 1
The board will prompt the regular and private students of the 9th and 11th to the next classes.
- Category 2
In 2021, promoted students will not appear in the composite exams. Their marks for the 9th and 11th will be based on the 10th and 12th class results in 2021.
- Category 3
The 10th and 12th class students will receive the marks according to their 9th and 11th class performance. All students will also get 3% extra marks from the previous exams.
- Category 4
The board will conduct the special annual exam between September and November. Following students can appear in the special annual exam:
- Those who want to improve their marks.
- Students who failed in more than 40% in the 9th and 11 class
- Those students who want to appear in additional subjects
The Inter-provincial Education Minister’s Conference (IPEMC) and boards of Governors (BoG) has contrast in the decision of Transcripts and certificates,
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IPEMC Decision
- IPEMC decided that only overall grade will be mentioned on the transcript, individual subject marks will not be mentioned.
- On the transcript, the board must mention that given marks/grades are according to the formula and guidelines approved by the government.
Boards of Governors(BoG) decision
- The format of the transcript will be according to the previous ones. However, the board must mention in the transcript that given marks are according to the formula and guidelines approved by the government
- Those students who want to sit in special exams must inform the boards within the 15 days after the declaration of result.
Extra recommendations from the BoG
The BoG gave some extra suggestions about some points that were not covered in the IPEMC decision. Such as:
- Improvement cases
Those students who have passed their exams earlier and now want to improve the marks in 2020. Those students will be granted better marks of the two past papers of the same subjects
- Practical marks
The boards will give the 50% marks in the practicals to all students as a baseline marks. The remaining 50% will be according to the scores in the relevant theory paper.
- Those students who want to improve one or two papers of part-I with Part -II, will get 3% award marks according to the policy.
- All other categories that are not mentioned above will appear in the special examination.
