Hyderabad, July 13th: The SSC Board will put an end to the marks system and likely to introduce grades system from this academic year 2009-10. The board will also do away with the term “fail” while awarding certificates. The officials propose to replace the term “fail” with “needs improvement” or “promotion on hold”. The move is aimed at de-stressing the students and removing stigma attached to “failure” in exams. Interestingly the orders pertaining to awarding grades were issued in 2001, but remained only on papers.
The issue once again came to force in the wake of reforms proposed by the union minister for HRD, Mr. Kapil Sibal to de-stress the students. The state government has initiated efforts to implement the grading system from the ensuing SSC public exams 2010. The officials of school education department discussed the matter with the SSC Board. Thought the Board sought time till 2011 public exams, the officials asked them to start the grading system from the ensuing exams in March 2010.
According to the officials there were two proposals for awarding grades. The first one is to award four grades A, B, C, D and the second proposal talks of awarding grades from A to F. there are also suggestions to award A+, B+, C+, D+ grades to differentiate students with better performance.
Hyderabad, July 13th: Eight more swine flu cases were identified in the city on Monday taking the total number of flu victims to 31. Of the eight cases, seven are interlinked and are said to be a case of “cluster swine flu”. Sources said a 28 year old software professional with HINI vir...
Kakinada, July 13th: The East Godavari District police achieved a breakthrough in two murder cases relating to the Tetagunta couple murder and Pithapuram pastor murder. The cops arrested six youth that were involved in the incident and recovered property worth Rs 1.50 lakh from the accused. ...
Rajahmundry, July 13th: In an attempt to bring awareness among the general public on traffic rules and regulations, the police has taken up a week long awareness drive from Monday. In this concern a meeting was held with the auto rickshaw drivers. Speaking on the occasion, the deputy superintendent...
Kakinada, July 13th: Revenue Divisional Officer and sub-divisional magistrate, Mr. G.C Kishore Kumar, recommended action against the staff of the Manjeru Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society (PACS) in Kajuluru mandal of East Godavari for negligence of duties, affecting the interests of the farmi...
Hyderabad, July 14th: Six TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samiti) members including the party’s former MLC, Mr. Rahman have decided to quit the party and join the Congress in a week. Two TRS MLAs are also reportedly ready to cross the floor and are waiting for the right opportunity. Mr. Rahman along w...
Hyderabad, July 14th: Security was tightened along the coast, particularly at Visakhapatnam and Kakinada port areas following an intelligence bureau (IB) alert about the possible sneaking in of terrorists through the sea route in South India. The district police and marine police stations have been...
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