Coimbatore: A day after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the public examination dates for classes X and XII, teachers of the state government schools have demanded the government to announce dates for board exams for their students as well. They have also demanded to notify the reduced portion for classes X and XII.
"It has been months since the government announced its decision to reduce the syllabus for all the classes but it has not yet notified about it. At least for the classes X and XII, the portions should be notified at the earliest. Because, most of the schools had already completed the syllabus," state treasure of Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary School Government Teachers Association (TNHHSSGA) T Arulanantham said.
Pointing out that every year they would identify the average and below average students by December and prepare a minimum level material for them, he said without knowing about the deleted portions, the teachers could not prepare the material.
"If some of the questions that we had included in the material were from the deleted portions, then it would demotivate the students. We don’t understand why the government is delaying it to this extend," he added.
On Thursday, state education minister KA Sengottaiyan said the examination dates would be announced only after the announcement of election dates.
Arulanantham said that the government should not mix education with the politics, and announce the examination dates at the earliest.
President of Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Association PK Ilamaran said the government should announce the public examination dates at the earliest because teachers would need at least a couple of weeks to train the students psychologically for the examinations.
"Teaching in groups at micro level ie., a teacher for five students, should be formed to prepare the students mentally. Before that, the school education department should release the deleted portion, and it would give a sort of hope to the students. At present, both the teachers and students are confused due to the prevailing uncertainty," he added.
Expressing hopes that the examination dates will be announced in January, president of Tamil Nadu Private Schools Association R Vishalakshi said at least if the portions are released now, we could utilize the remaining time and fine tune the students on it. Also, the government should issue guidelines regarding the practical examinations because students had not attended any practical sessions this year, she added.