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Hyderabad: Govt decides to reduce pass marks for CwSN
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- Issues the GO MS 27 as per which, qualifying and passing marks for students with intellectual challenge particularly autism spectrum disorder and mental illness have been reduced from 35 to 10
- The pass marks for other CwSN is 20 instead of 35
- Certain grammatical mistakes, punctuation errors, graphs, geometry and maps will be ignored for CwSN during the examinations
Hyderabad: In a major move to encourage Children with Special Needs (CwSN) to pursue studies, the Telangana government has announced providing exemptions and concessions especially reducing the pass marks from 35 to 20 in all subjects from classes VI to X and SSC Public Exams from this academic year.
State School Education department has issued the GO MS 27 as per which, qualifying and passing marks for students with intellectual challenges particularly autism spectrum disorder and mental illness have been reduced from 35 to 10. However, the pass marks for other CwSN are 20 instead of 35.
Apart from providing separate answer scripts which are thicker, certain grammatical mistakes, punctuation errors, graphs, geometry, and maps will be ignored for CwSN during the examinations.
They will also be provided with assistive devices like calculators, computers, abacus, Tyler frame, magnifying glass, video magnifier, Braille slate, geometry kit, Braille measuring tape, etc., as per the requirement in the examination. In the case for children with visual impairment, alternate types of questions in lieu of descriptive questions requiring visual inputs will be provided.
The CwSN will also get a compensatory time of 20 minutes for each hour in the examinations. For an examination with a duration of 1 hour, a compensatory time of 20 minutes will be allotted. Similarly, for a three-hour examination, a compensatory time of 60 minutes will be extended.
Further, to facilitate easy access, the government has decided to do away with the jumbling process during the examination to all CwSN and allow them in the same or nearby school as per the feasibility.
Depending on the specific needs, these exemptions and concessions will be extended from this academic year 2022-23, in addition to existing provisions including the provision of the scribe, exemption/concessions on payment of examination fee for the SSC public exam.
