New Delhi: Although the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has meted out a solution to beat the stress and anxiety of Class X students by replacing marks and introducing grading system but the same now gets carried over to various schools as they are now confused over Class XI admissions from this session.

Now the CBSE has stepped further to solve the reservations expressed by various schools as it plans to introduce a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) system.

While allocating the students with different streams in Class XI, the Board under this system considers providing them with average grades in each subject.

Schools are uncertain about the admission criteria to be followed for Class XI with grades replacing marks from this year in Class X.

The apprehensions faced by the schools are that grading system will make their task of allocating streams to class XI students difficult, as many of them will have same grades.

But with CBSE mulling to introduce CGPA system, the schools can now relax.

"By March end, we are expected to come up with a detailed and concrete list which will clarify how to break a tie. It will be a pilot test and we expect it to work well," said CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi.

All affiliated schools will soon receive an advisory from CBSE stating their further code of conduct while admitting class XI students.

Until last year, it was a nightmare for students being allocated streams based on the results of pre-board exams or even based on a test conducted after Class X but now, CBSE will award grades on a nine-point scale to indicate subject wise performance.

Students scoring A1 grade will be given 9 points, a student getting grade A2 will get 8 points and so on.

"With the CBSE introducing the CGPA system it will be easier for us to calculate the aptitude of a student towards three streams. If we want to consider a child's prospect in Science stream, we can easily take the average score of the grade points in Mathematics, Science and English," said R.K. Sharma, principal of Ahlcon Public School.