CBSE exams from July 1 to 15, masks and sanitisers a must

CBSE exams from July 1 to 15, masks and sanitisers a must

Onus On Parents To Ensure Wards Don’t Report To Centres If Unwell

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:  19.05.2020

With the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) finally declaring the dates for the remaining classes X and XII examinations, students will have to report at the centres with masks and hand sanitisers in transparent bottles.

Issuing the dates spread over July 1 to 15 on Monday, CBSE also mentioned that physical distancing norms would be followed at the centres. The parents have been asked to ensure that the children are not unwell while reporting for the examinations.

The board will conduct Class X examinations for the students in northeast Delhi, where a few examinations had to be postponed due to the February riots. The Class XII examinations were put on hold from March 19 for the whole of India following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The Class X social science exam for northeast Delhi will be held on July 1. But CBSE examination controller Sanyam Bhardwaj said this exam would be just for those students who could not appear for it on March

18. “The students who have already given the examination need not write it again,” Bhardwaj clarified. There will be tests for three more subjects.

For Class XII, the examinations for nine subjects will be held in northeast Delhi, with four subjects — mathematics, economics, biology and history — scheduled on July 15. For the rest of India, seven subjects have revised exam dates.

Delhi education minister Manish Sisodia had requested the Union human resource and development minister not to conduct the examinations due to the rising Covid-19 cases in the capital.

CBSE has decided to conduct the exams only for main subjects, which will be crucial for admissions to higher educational institutions. For other subjects, it will issue marking/assessment instructions.

For the schools located in 25 other countries, the board will come out with a separate assessment process as all of them are in various phases of Covid-19 restrictions.

The evaluation process, which was also on hold due to the outbreak and the resultant lockdown, has resumed from May 12 with answer books getting delivered at the evaluators’ home.