Most of the states have supported the CBSE’s proposal to conduct the Class 12 Board examination for less than 19 main topics in a shortened format in July-August, The Indian Express has realized.
However, a number of states resembling Kerala, Assam, Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Meghalaya have urged the Central Government to vaccinate academics and college students on precedence to make sure their security throughout their time on the take a look at centre.
Except for a number of states, together with Delhi and Maharashtra, the others favoured going forward with the examinations, stated an officer who attended Sunday’s assembly of state Education Ministers and Education Secretaries that was chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
“The priority of the Government is to conduct all the examinations in a safe and secure environment,” Singh stated after the assembly. All states have been requested to submit their suggestions in writing by May 25.
This nearly guidelines out an announcement, in the mean time, on scrapping this yr’s CBSE Class 12 examination. The Class 10 Board examination has already been cancelled because of the second wave of the pandemic.
According to sources, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Assam and Tamil Nadu have been among the many states that supported holding the Board examinations within the shortened format. Punjab emphasised on conducting the exams in particular person, even whether it is for a number of topics. Karnataka and Puducherry agreed to go together with regardless of the Central Government decides.
In the proposed curtailed format, the examination will solely be held for 19 main topics out of the 174 provided by CBSE to Class 12 college students and, in all chance, be scheduled in two phases — from July 15-30 and August 1-14.
Each examination could be of one-and-a-half hours as an alternative of three hours and the query papers would have solely goal and short-answer questions.
A CBSE scholar takes a minimal of 5 and a most of six topics of which 4 are often the foremost topics, which embody Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, History, Political Science, Business Studies, Accountancy, Geography, Economics and English.
As first reported by The Indian Express Saturday, the Central Government had known as a gathering of all state governments to hunt their suggestions on two choices proposed by the CBSE for conducting the examinations.
Under the primary possibility, the nationwide board has recommended that examinations for 19 main topics be held within the “existing format” and at designated examination centres — and marks for minor topics be calculated on efficiency within the main topics.
This possibility would require one month of pre-exam actions and two months for conducting the exams and declaration of outcomes and one other 45 days for compartment exams. The first possibility can solely be executed if the Board has a window of three months and is proposed to be held in August-September with ends in October.
Under the second format, which is able to take solely 45 days to wind up, the CBSE has proposed that Class 12 college students sit for the foremost topic exams in their very own faculties (learn self-centres), as an alternative of designated centres. Apart from the shortened length of the examination, a Class 12 scholar will seem for one language and three elective (learn main) topics solely.
The marks for the fifth and sixth topics shall be determined based mostly on the efficiency within the elective topics. Any scholar who will not be capable of sit for an examination attributable to Covid will get one other alternative to seem for it.
Apart from Delhi and Maharashtra, which urged the Centre to discover a non-examination path to assess Class 12 college students, Haryana and Andaman and Nicobar are understood to have expressed issue in holding Board examinations earlier than vaccination of all academics and college students.
West Bengal, Odisha and Rajasthan had sought extra time to get again with their ultimate view on the topic.
Sunday’s assembly was additionally attended by Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar and Women and Child Minister Smriti Irani.