Bhubaneswar, Aug. 11 -- Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Odisha on Monday issued a new assessment criterion for evaluation of Class 9 and Class 10 students. According to the new assessment scheme, the academic year will begin from July 2021 and will continue till April 2022.

There will be two terms in the academic year, Term 1 and Term 2 and approximately 50% syllabus will be completed in each term. Moreover, as part of the new assessment scheme, internal assessments will be conducted at the school level in line with the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) process.

The evaluation of Class 9 and 10 students will be done with a weightage of 20% to internal assessment, 30% to 1st term-end examination and 50% to final examinatio...