The schedule specifies that the annual higher secondary theory exams (plus 2) covering various disciplines like Arts, Science, Commerce, and Vocational Education are scheduled to take place from February 14 to March 13, 2024
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BHUBANESWAR: While a section of students has been demanding the cancellation of the higher secondary (Plus two) exam in the wake of the rising Covid-19 cases in the state, experts believe doing so will have a cascading effect on their careers. They have advised students to keep their morale up and focus on studies.
“Interestingly, we don’t have the provision of internal assessment in higher secondary. On what basis will the students be marked. Those who want the exam scrapped must surely not be serious about their careers. The government has not yet asked the students to come to the examination centres by risking their lives. It is an unprecedented emergency situation, students must not lose patience and wait till June,” said Basudev Chhatoi, former president of the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), which conducts the Class XII board exam in the state. Students of a few higher secondary schools have staged protests in
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BHUBANESWAR: A day after the state government announced the cancellation of Class X boards, Class XII students of higher secondary schools here demanded the same for their exams, on Thursday.
School and mass education minister Samir Ranjan Dash advised them to wait till the first week of June for a decision and to focus on their studies till then.
“If Class X students are vulnerable to Covid, are we Covid-proof? Why should we be left in such uncertainty for two months? Is the government sure that the situation will improve by them and an offline exam will be possible? We want the government to cancel the Class XII exam,” said Santosh Kumar Swain, a student of Maharshi College of Natural Law.