Suresh Kumar meets education department officials to discuss SSLC exam preparations

MYSURU: Primary education minister S Suresh Kumar has said that 8.48 lakh students will take the SSLC exams scheduled from June 25 to July 4.
Ensuring students’ safety and boosting their confidence top the department’s priority, he told reporters after meeting officers from Mysuru, Mandya and Kodagu districts at Administrative Training Institute here on Friday. “As SSLC is crucial for students, Kerala government has already started the exams, while Tamil Nadu will hold it from June 15.”
“We are taking all precautionary measures. Bharat Scouts and Guides will provide them masks free of cost. Each student gets two reusable masks,” he said, adding that at all the 4,000 exam centres in the state, students will be given hand sanitisers and made to enter the hall after thermal scanning.
“Hitherto, 24 students were accommodated in the exam hall. The number has now been reduced to 18 to ensure safe distance. Unwell students, if any, will write the exam in a separate hall,” he said, adding that children who have migrated to their hometowns can write the exams at the nearest centre. “Results will be announced by July-end. PU results will be out by July 20,” the minister said.
Kumar said that they are yet to decide on restarting the classes and whether to reduce the syllabus. “A meeting with experts will be held next week to decide on these issues. DDPIs have requested for holding 10-day classes for students for revision. This will also be decided in the meeting,” he added.