State board invited suggestions from parents, students & educationists.

This step was taken as a

measure, to avoid the mistakes with 90:10 or percentile method.

Acc. to state education minister Balasaheb Thorat decision was taken after proper deliberation

Result of 16 lakhs students would have to be re-evaluated

Admissions are held

Filed application on February 10 2010.

Approved on 26th Feb 2010

it violates the right to equality as it applies to students belonging to only one board.

June 7 Parents file petition against best five

June 10 A division bench of Justices J.N. Patel and S.C. Dharmadhikari asked why the same facility is
not available to students of other boards, and gave the state education board time till June 18 to file
its reply

June 23 HC rejects the govt plea

June 26 The government had announced last week that it would file the petition in interest of the 16
lakh students of the state board.

June 29 Govt. asks ICSE schools to give past three years of data but the ICSE board advised principals
against it as they thought govt would use this data against them. Because A couple of years ago, the
government had asked the ICSE board for the top ten scores in the ICSE exam, which the
government then used while formulating the 'percentile system,' a system that hurt the interests of
ICSE students. Little wonder, then, that ICSE schools aren't too keen on parting with information to
the government.

the evaluation system followed by the state board, ICSE and CBSE cannot
be compared as the method followed to check state board papers is
stricter than the method in the other two boards. As a result, ICSE and
CBSE students get more marks,” said Vasundhara Naik, a parent. The
best-five policy cannot be applied to CBSE as they have only five
subjects. An alternative way to bring students of all the three boards on
par would be to consider marks in science and maths for those opting for
the science stream and marks in languages and social sciences for those
choosing the arts stream,” Naik said.

The system violates the right to equality guaranteed by Article 14 of

Constitution, a Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice J N Patel and Justice S C
Dharmadhikari said on Wednesday.