Tuesday, June 9, 2020

SSC exams cancelled, all students to be promoted


SSC exams cancelled, all students to be promoted

Can’t Hold Exams As Corona Cases Rising, Says CM

Koride.Mahesh@timesgroup.com

Hyderabad:09.06.2020

The Telangana government has decided to promote over five lakh Class 10 students without conducting the school-leaving Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. This was decided at a high-level meeting convened by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao with the education minister and other officials at Pragati Bhavan on Monday.

“Based on students’ performance in internal assessment exams they would be promoted to higher classes as it would not be possible to conduct exams in the present situation of rising Covid-19 cases,” the CM announced.

Decision on degree and post-graduate examinations would be taken later after assessing the situation.

Earlier on Friday, the Telangana high court had said that SSC exams cannot be held in Greater Hyderabad area as there were many hotspots in Hyderabad, Secunderabad, and Rangareddy districts while allowing it in rest of the state by taking preventive measures. After the court instructed the state to decide by Saturday afternoon, the government initially deferred the exam for the second time in three months and, on Monday, finally cancelled it.

Of 11 papers (six subjects), the government had conducted three papers for 5.34 lakh students across the state in March this year. After Covid-19 cases started rising in the state, the government had to defer it for the first time after the high court intervened.

The SSC examinations were later supposed to begin on June 8, but the government had to defer them after the high court directed the state not to conduct them in GHMC limits due spurt in Covid-19 cases.

According to the chief minister’s office (CMO), the government examined what other states have done on holding SSC exams. Taking views from education department officials and other states’ decisions on exams, the chief minister decided to promote all the students.

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