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The students of Classes 9 and 11 will be promoted to Class 10 and 12 respectively without any exams.
The government will now take a decision on conducting Board exams in the first week of June.
Physical classes for students of Class 10 and 12 have been banned in all schools from Monday.
New Delhi: The Odisha government on Thursday (April 15) suspended Class 10 and 12 board examinations in view of the surge in COVID-19 cases.
The students of Classes 9 and 11 of the academic year 2020-2021 will be promoted to Class 10 and 12 respectively without any exams.
“CM Naveen Patnaik orders suspension of all 10th and 12th board exams in the state in view of COVID situation. All students of Class 9 and 11 in academic year 2020-21 will be prompted to the 10th and 12th standards respectively. They do not have to take any tests for this,” ANI quoted Odisha CMO as saying.
File photo of Plus II exam
BHUBANESWAR: The plus-II board exams will begin on May 18 and end on June 12, the government announced on Wednesday, while exams for vocational stream will start from May 28.
The exams, conducted by the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), will be held following Covid protocols. “Usually the exam begins with the English paper, but this year science students will appear in physics first in the wake of various national level entrance examinations,” school and mass education minister Samir Ranjan Dash said. The students of humanities and commerce will continue to sit for the English exam, Dash added.