New Delhi, Jun 16: The class 10 and 12 students of the CICSE board can choose not to appear for pending board exams and be marked as per their performance in pre-board exams or internal assessment, according to top officials.
The board had also submitted the proposal before the Bombay High Court on Monday in response to a petition filed by a parent seeking directions to the authorities to cancel exams in view of the spike in COVID-19 cases.
According to Gerry Arathoon, Chief Executive and Secretary, Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), the students will have to communicate their option to their respective schools by June 22.
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The exams which were postponed due to the lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, are now scheduled to be conducted from July 1 to 14. However, several parents have been demanding the exams be scrapped.
"The students will be given two options---they either appear for the rescheduled exams or choose to have their results based on their performance in the pre-board exams or internal assessment. The option will be available only for the pending exams, the result of the subjects for which exams were already conducted, will be calculated as per performance in the exam only," Arathoon said.
The board also clarified that the students will not be entitled to make a subject-wise choice between the two options for pending exams.
Unlike the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which will only be conducting exams in 29 subjects crucial for promotion and admission to higher educational institutions, the CISCE will be conducting all pending exams.
The pending CBSE exams are scheduled from July 1 to 15. The schedule for the board exams has been decided in order to ensure that they are completed before competitive examinations. While the engineering entrance exam JEE-Mains is scheduled to be held from July 18 to 23, the medical entrance exam NEET is scheduled for July 26.
While the CBSE has given the option to not appear for pending board exams for differently-abled students, it has canceled the examinations for its around 250 schools situated abroad and has adopted the criteria of awarding marks on the basis of either practical exams conducted or the internal assessment marks.
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A group of parents has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the CBSE to declare results on the basis of tests already conducted, and calculate the total on an average basis with internal assessment marks of the remaining subjects.
Universities and schools across the country have been shut since March 16, when the Centre announced a countrywide classroom shut down as part of measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. A nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24, which came into effect the next day.
While the government has eased several restrictions, schools and colleges continue to remain closed.
According to Home Ministry guidelines, there will be no exam centres in containment zones.
"Wearing of face masks by teachers, staff and students will be mandatory. There shall be provisions of thermal screening and sanitiser at the centres and social distancing rules will have to be followed at exam centres. Special buses may be arranged by states and UTs for transportation of students to exam centres," the Home Ministry has said.
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First of all this hypocrite leaders of BJP are instigating violence in peaceful DK
Ayyo Shobha ....nimde sarkara iruvaga nimge madakaglilla ....hagantha helthidda V.S Acharya ne gotak andbittru ....RIP
anyways ...to ban anything . you must have the right reason which you people do not have ....and court is not that much weak that any one can do anything
viparyasa enandre ....Ashraf koleyadaga ildidda sittu sharath koleyadaga ummalisi horag bandbitthu
hahahaha shobakka, read the statement from our home minister of karnataka, that communal tension in DK is creation of bjp not police.
#stop vote bank politics#
Ban PFI ? Is it a solution? They are lakhs of PFI members in Karnataka alone leave alone India.
They will join or make a new group or name.
Provocative speech by RSS leaders, Gou BD lynchers , arms carrying terrorist camp organiser Sri ram sena . If the police and the political camps had taken care of them long time ago , our beautiful Mangalore would remain peaceful.
Lack of political will from Congress banning and barring hateful speech is the main cause. Don't let Karnataka turn into hinduvta laboratory.
Take care of RSS, PFI also will disappear.
Idondu bere jaati illa mata illa
Madam include Bajrang dal also in your letter and remember you represent s all community
Shoba aligning on pfi & kfd without any proof I am asking shoba you are leading this rss terrorist and its ruthless branches of bajrandal.vhp ect.. they killed Mahatma Gandhi. And now ur pm narendra modi when he was cm in Gujarat state he is leading to kill more than 2000 innocent Muslim's brutally and killed pregnant women's children's and raped elder, younger without any age limit at that time where you slipped ur eyes and ears are dumped. And all over India communal crisis and killed thousands of Muslim your godfather lk advanis rath yatra. And demolished Babri Masjid court accused most your senior leaders where are you that time and in the name cow so many Muslims killed brutally your tongue not uttered a single statement. we well know u & ur terrorist RSS organize this is not an enemy of Muslims its enemy for humanity. go enjoy with yeddi useless politics. chair heaters.
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