Judgment

FAIZAN UDDIN

( 1 ) ACCORDING to the appellants, the Central Board of Secondary Education introduced 10+2 scheme of education in the year 1977 providing general education up to the level of 10+2 class, visualising two distinct stages one up to class X and the other up to class XII so that the students with certain competence should alone pursue education beyond class X. The appellant, Cambridge School, New Delhi, with a view to achieve the aforesaid objective and to upgradge the academic standard of each student through special programme prescribed a cut off level of 50 percent marks for admission to class XI of the said school. Consequently, the principal-appellant addressed a circular dated 4-10-1993 to the parents of the students stating that the admission to class X would not be automatic but a cut off level was prescribed by the Cambridge School to the effect that a student of class X must obtain 50 percent marks in aggregate in the Board examination for being granted readmission in class XI. In other words it would be a fresh admission even for those students who passed class X from the Cambridge School itself obtaining minimum marks of 50 per cent in aggregate as quali