Board exams from May 1st week

Bhanu P Lohumi

Tribune News Service

Shimla, January 8

Following the announcement of Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal that CBSE Board examinations of Class X and XII will be held between May 4 and June 10, the Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education has decided to hold the “offline” board examinations from the first week of May.

“We are planning to hold pre-board examination, tentatively scheduled from February 20 to March 10,” said Director of Higher Education Amarjeet Sharma, who has directed the deputy directors, principals and headmasters to submit the status report of syllabus covered by their respective schools.

The pre-board examinations would be conducted to review the performance of students so that remedial measures could be taken to improve the performance of students who do not fare up to the mark, he added.

The syllabus has been curtailed by 30 per cent and teachers have been asked to continue with the online teaching and make lessons more interesting by adding examples, models and illustrations and ensure that entire syllabus is covered.

As per the status report the syllabus of most of the subjects barring Sanskrit, psychology, sociology has been completed and revision is going on. Teachers have been told to send mock papers so that students can prepare well for exams.

The result of a majority of subjects of second term online assessment of Classes IX to XII is ready and compilation is underway and results of assessment will provide valuable inputs to gauge the performance levels.

The winter closing schools have vacations till February 12 and the government has also closed summer closing schools, but the online teaching will continue in summer closing schools.

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