PANAJI: As cases continue to rise in the state, the directorate of education (
DoE) on Friday issued a circular permitting
schools to conduct the ongoing final
exams for
Class IX and
XI students online.
The DoE has said that instructions to conduct the exams online will only be applicable for subjects and schools where the tests have not been held already. “It is now informed that the examination of Class IX and XI should be conducted by allowing students to answer from their residence, in the same manner as for up to Class VIII. This circular is applicable for the examinations which are yet pending,” director Dilip Bhagat said in a circular.
This would mean sending the students the question paper over either Whatsapp, email or the school app.
The students will then write the answers and upload a photograph or scanned copy of the answer sheet online at the time the exam ends.
The school then keeps a drop box at the institute, where parents submit the actual answer sheets. The teachers then compare the soft copy of the answer sheet with the actual one to ascertain that there has been no cheating by the student.
As exams of the state board are set to begin later this month, schools had been instructed by DoE to complete all examinations conducted by the institution before April 24.
In most schools, the Class IX exams began this week and the Class
XI exams were set to begin from Monday. The exams were planned in the physical mode, as per earlier instructions of the DoE.