PANAJI: The Higher Secondary
Principals’
Forum has requested chief minister
Pramod Sawant, who is also the education minister, to scrap the second term or the
final examination for standard XI instead of making the students answer the
exam from their homes.
In a letter to Sawant, the forum has stated that allowing students to answer the examination from their residence involves “a lot of difficulties and discrepancies”.
The forum has suggested that the exam be scrapped and the students be assessed based on their performance of the first mid-term and the first term examination conducted in the offline mode.
The “simple suggestion for the benefit of everyone and for the safety and security of students and teachers” was arrived at after a brainstorming session via GoogleMeet of principals, president of the forum Walter Cabral said.
“Most of them felt that at this time of crisis the students, parents and teachers can remain safe and sound if our humble suggestion is accepted,” he added.