Ask & Answer: India's Largest Education Community

Hi. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday submitted to the Supreme Court a 40:30:30 formula for evaluation of marks of Class XII students, which will be based on their Class XII Class XI and Class X results, respectively. According to the formula, the theory marks of each subject will be computed using 40% from the marks they got in the subject pre-boards or mid-term exams held by their schools earlier this year, 30% from their Class XI final exam marks, and 30% from their Class X board exam results. This will be added to the actual marks that they got in their Class XII internal assessments and practicals for that subject. How will the 30-30-40 percentages for theory marks be computed? For Class XII it will be based on the performance of students in each subject in either one or more unit tests, mid-term or pre-board theory exams. This will be left to the discretion of the Result Committees to be constituted in each school comprising the school principal, two seniormost teachers of the school and two teachers teaching Class XII at a neighbouring school. For example, if the committee may be of the considered view that only the pre-board exams may be taken into consideration, then a full weightage can be given to that component. Similarly, another school result committee may decide to give equal weightage to pre-board exams and mid-term exams, read the boards notification detailing the tabulation policy. For the Class XI component, the computation will be based on the marks in the respective subjects from year-end final theory exams that the students wrote in 2019-2020. In the Class X component, the average of the theory marks of three main subjects in which a student performed best in their Class X board examinations will be computed. This average will be uniformly awarded to all the class XII subjects based on theory weightage of each subject.

I see that you have completed a Diploma in electronics and communication engineering and now you are interested in safety engineering and marine engineering. That's great! You can pursue a Diploma in marine engineering which is a 3-year course. The average course fees range from INR 50,000 to 3,00,000. After completing this course, you can expect job positions of Marine Engineer, Ship operator, Chief Marine Engineer, Marine Surveyor, Port Managers, Maritime Educators, Technical Superintendent and more. For safety engineering, you can pursue a distance/correspondence Diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering. This course is divided into 6 semesters and admission is based on merit in the qualifying examination followed by candidates' performance in the counselling and interview round. I hope this helps!