School kids to take tests from home

School kids to take tests from home

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad: 02.0702020

At a time when state education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama announced the cancellation of all college exams in the state, the government said it has decided to conduct exams for primary school students.

The state education department on Tuesday directed all governmentrun, grant-in aid and private schools in the state to conduct exams for primary school students in the last week of July.

The periodic evaluation test is meant to check the progress of the child and will be conducted from the comfort of their homes under the supervision of the parents, a media statement said.

The test will be on the main language and maths. Each test will be of 25 marks and the schools have to make arrangements to ensure that question papers reach the students’ homes by July 28 at the latest. The parents have to submit the answer sheets to the schools by July 31. The question papers will carry five questions of five marks each.

Earlier this month, to ensure that the new academic session is not affected by the pandemic, the government had initiated a ‘Home Learning’ programme.

Students are provided ‘weekly learning material’ through various social media platforms.

Schools have been shut since March due to the coronavirus pandemic and school students have been promoted en masse for the 2019-20 academic year.