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Testing times Since CBSE’s announced its decision to cancel Class X board exams and evaluate students based on internal assessments and their performance in various tests held throughout the year, scores of parents and students have been confused and dismayed. Worried parents have been ringing up school principals flagging their concerns about the board’s new marks distribution formula for the students. “My son couldn’t attend most of the Class X pre-board exams conducted last year as he was down with fever. His performance in the periodic tests was not also up to the mark. If CBSE is considering the marks of those exams won’t it affect my son’s final grades? He was confident of getting good marks in the board exam, but they cancelled it,” says a parent. CBSE announced its ‘Policy for Tabulation of Marks’ on May 1 in the wake of cancelling Class X exams, entrusting for the first time schools with the final assessment of students based on internal mark ....