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Centre on Wednesday decided to cancel the Class 10 board exams and reschedule Class 12 boards
NEW DELHI: Keeping in view rising Covid cases and apprehensions expressed by students and school administrators, the Centre on Wednesday decided to cancel the Class 10 board exams and reschedule Class 12 boards with a decision to be taken on fresh dates on June 1.
The decisions were taken at a review meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Initial discussions considered rescheduling both Class 10 and 12 exams but the Prime Minister is understood to have remarked that students had already suffered considerable uncertainty and should be spared further travails to the extent possible. The meeting decided that the Class 10 board exams be scrapped with students unhappy with their results permitted to take the tests whenever they are held next.
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While class 10 CBSE Board exams have been cancelled, class 12th students have been left in the lurch.
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CBSE Class 10 students will be promoted using Objective Criterion
Amid mounting pressure over the Centre to postpone the CBSE Board exams scheduled for next month, the Education Ministry, after the consultation with PM Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, decided to cancel class 10 board exams and postpone class 12 board exams.
The ministry said that it will review the situation on June 1 to decide fresh dates for class 12 boards. Meanwhile, class 10 students will be promoted on the basis of the objective criterion developed by the board.