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Ruling spells gloom for SSC students
With the Bombay High Court striking down the state government’s Best-Five policy, marks of all subjects of the SSC students are now likely to be counted for junior college admissions. SSC students are disheartened as their percentages would fall if all six subjects are counted. Yashshri Soman reports.
Bhavna Sawant (15), who passed her SSC examination this year, concentrated on studying for five papers and hoped only to pass in her least favourite subject — Social Sciences.
“Last October, I was told by the school that marks of only five out of six subjects in the exam would be considered. My SSC mark sheet also reflected that,” she added.
But with the Bombay High Court striking down the state government’s Best-Five policy, marks of all subjects of the SSC students are now likely to be counted for junior college admissions. SSC students are disheartened as their percentages would fall if all six subjects are counted.
“This is unjust to the SSC students. The court should have retained the Best-Five policy at least for this year as the students had studied accordingly,” said Father Francis Swamy, principal, Holy Family High School, Andheri.
“I am disappointed with the SSC board students usually score less in languages and the Best-Five policy let them do away with a language if they scored less in. Now they will suffer,” said Thane resident Dr Shubhangi Gangal (39), whose son’s percentage will drop from 93.82 per cent to 92.15 per cent if all six subjects are counted.
About 3.39 lakh students took the SSC exam in the city. The SSC board issued students their marksheets on June 22, which showed the percentage, calculated on the Best-Five policy. “It is going to be a Herculean task for the board and more paper work for the schools to change these mark sheets,” said Principal Abha Dharam Pal, Utpal Shanghvi School. For students, confusion prevails. “I am confused, disheartened and disappointed.
What will we do with our mark sheets. I hope the college cutoffs fall too,” said Divya Udaipur (16).
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