Kendriya Vidyalaya No 2 3 BRD

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Scheme of External Examination

Classes IX examination shall be conducted by the Schools themselves while Class X Examination based on Class X syllabus shall be conducted by the Board. Details of question papers, marks and time duration are given as under

Sr. No	Subject	No of Question papers	Max Marks	Duration
1.	Language	1	100	3 hours
2.	Language	1	100	3 hours
3.	Mathematics	1	100	3 hours
4.	Science	1 (Theory)	75	3 hours
5.	Social Sciences	1	100	3 hours
6.	Additional subject if any	1	100	3 hours

Scheme of External Examination

Class XI examination shall be conducted internally by the schools themselves while Class XII examination based only on the syllabus for Class XII shall be conducted by the Board in all the subjects except General Studies, Work Experience, Physical and Health Education which will be assessed internally by the schools. In all the subjects examined by the Board, a student will be given one paper each carrying 100 marks for 3 hours. However for subjects involving practical work such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geography, the written examination will be of 70 marks and the practical of 30 marks.

Grading and Merit Certificate

a.	In addition to numerical scores, the Board will indicate grades in the marks sheets issued to the candidates in case of subjects of external examinations. In case of internal assessment, only grades will be shown.
b.	Letter grades on a nine-point scale will be used.
c.	The grades will be derived from scores in case of subjects of external examination. In case of subject of internal assessment, they will be awarded by the Schools on a nine-point scale and reported to the Board.
d.	The passing marks in such subject of examination will be 33%.

1.	For awarding the grades, the Board will put al the passed students in a rank order and will award grades.
2.	The method will be used in subjects where the number of candidates who have passed is more than 500.
3.	In case of ties, all the students getting the same score will get the same grade. If the number of students at a score point need to be divided into two segments, the smaller segment will go with the larger.
4.	In respect of subjects like languages and other subjects, where total number of candidates passing in a subject is less than 500, the grading would be adopted keeping in view the pattern of grading and distribution in other similar subjects.