Education Secretary talks to DEOs, school heads about exam readiness

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 5

Education Secretary Krishan Kumar on Tuesday addressed the District Education Officers, school heads and teachers across the state regarding the Mission Shat Pratishat launched by the Education Department keeping in mind the upcoming PSEB examinations. Taking part in videoconferencing via Edusat, DEOs, school heads and teachers from Amritsar too gave ground report from the district regarding the preparations for the exams.

“Given the pandemic situation, the Education Secretary encouraged the school heads to explore vistas of digital applications in conduct of examinations. The Mission Shat Pratishat is a well-conceived plan by the department, which can be accomplished with determination, dedication and zeal among the teachers to translate the same at the cutting-edge level,” said Krishan Kumar.

He said the Education Department had made effective steps to analyse the performance of the students by mobilising all the school heads to prepare the PPTs based data analysis of the performance of each and every student in different subjects in the house examinations during the current academic session. The exercise was aimed at devising a strategy so that individual attention to the weak, average and meritorious students could be given accordingly.

“The simplified material for the weak students and exclusive material and coaching for the meritorious students has been prepared. Besides, model question papers in each and every subject have been prepared and put on the Punjab Educare App for the convenience of the teachers and the students. Besides taking online classes, the schoolteachers have started taking extra classes. “The Punjab Government has also provided smartphones and tablets to students to enable them to have access to the latest digital applications for continuing their study as well as preparation for the PSEB examinations,” said Kumar.

He asked the DEOs, Zila Sikhiya Sudhar teams, District and Block Mentors belonging to different subjects to ensure motivational monitoring at the ground level so that the availability of simplified material, model question papers, continuous analysis of progress report on the basis of regular tests could be done to accomplish the mission successfully.