1,326 students absent for Tamil paper in Tirupur
TNN | Mar 2, 2019, 04:53 ISTTirupur: As many as 1,326 students were absent for Tamil paper in Class XII state board examinations in Tirupur district on Friday.
In all, 25,421 students from 203 government and private schools, and 32 private students have registered to appear for the board exam this year. There are 82 exam centres in Tirupur, Dharapuram, Palladam and Udumalpet education districts. Collector K S Palanisamy inspected Jaivabai corporation girls higher secondary school in the city during the exam time.
While average absenteeism would be lesser than 2% in Class XII board exams in the district, 5.2% of the total students enrolled for Tamil paper did not appear for the exam. Sources in the education department said the absenteeism has increased after the government notified Class XI exam as board exam since last year.
The government directed the department to provide nominal roll even to students who failed in Class XI.
Such students were given option to write both Class XII board exams and arrears in Class XI. Many of such students might not have appeared for the Class XII board exam on Friday, consequently increasing absenteeism percentage.
A senior official of the department said, “In order to achieve 100% results in Class XII board exams, many schools try to restrain ‘weak’ students from appearing the exams or expel them by issuing transfer certificates. To counter this unethical practice, the government directed the department to provide nominal roll to those ‘weak’ students to write exams in the same school, which expelled or ‘detained’ them.”
The number of absentees on the first day of Class XII board exams in Coimbatore was 1,697, which amounted to 4.9% of the 34,378 candidates enrolled for the examination. The increase in percentage is almost four times compared to the last year. On the first day of the exams last year, only 422 students out of the enrolled 36,833 were absent, which amounted to 1.14%.
In all, 25,421 students from 203 government and private schools, and 32 private students have registered to appear for the board exam this year. There are 82 exam centres in Tirupur, Dharapuram, Palladam and Udumalpet education districts. Collector K S Palanisamy inspected Jaivabai corporation girls higher secondary school in the city during the exam time.
While average absenteeism would be lesser than 2% in Class XII board exams in the district, 5.2% of the total students enrolled for Tamil paper did not appear for the exam. Sources in the education department said the absenteeism has increased after the government notified Class XI exam as board exam since last year.
The government directed the department to provide nominal roll even to students who failed in Class XI.
Such students were given option to write both Class XII board exams and arrears in Class XI. Many of such students might not have appeared for the Class XII board exam on Friday, consequently increasing absenteeism percentage.
A senior official of the department said, “In order to achieve 100% results in Class XII board exams, many schools try to restrain ‘weak’ students from appearing the exams or expel them by issuing transfer certificates. To counter this unethical practice, the government directed the department to provide nominal roll to those ‘weak’ students to write exams in the same school, which expelled or ‘detained’ them.”
The number of absentees on the first day of Class XII board exams in Coimbatore was 1,697, which amounted to 4.9% of the 34,378 candidates enrolled for the examination. The increase in percentage is almost four times compared to the last year. On the first day of the exams last year, only 422 students out of the enrolled 36,833 were absent, which amounted to 1.14%.
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