Central Board of Secondary Education or CBSE has said that at this stage it is difficult for the Board to decide and announce the new schedule for examinations for class 10 and class 12 students. However, the CBSE said any decision that the board will take with regard to the conduct of examinations will be taken by undertaking extensive consultation with higher education authorities and by keeping all aspects related to entrance exams, admissions dates, etc. in mind. The Board exams were postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
The Board also said it will give notice of about 10 days to all stakeholders before starting the Board examinations of all CBSE class 10 and 12 students.
"Under ordinary circumstances, the Board would not have hesitated to conduct all examinations that could not be held after 18th March, 2020 or are postponed for other reasons. But in the present situation, the Board has decided as follows:
The Board will conduct examinations for only main subjects that will be required for promotion and maybe crucial for admissions in higher educational institutions.
For the rest of the subjects, the Board will not hold examinations; the instructions for marking/assessment in all such cases shall be separately issued by the Board," CBSE said.
The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry, last week, had directed various agencies functioning under its supervision to work on revised schedules of exams.
This will apply to CBSE, National Institute Open Schooling (which conducts Class 10 and Class 12 exams) and National Testing Agency or NTA (which is incharge of national level entrance and eligibility tests like NEET, JEE Main and UGC NET).
Earlier, these agencies had postponed various examinations in view of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.
CBSE datesheet: The Board exams were postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country
In view of the coronavirus outbreak, the HRD ministry in a communication to various educational regulators, had asked on March 19 to reschedule the ongoing examinations including CBSE Board and university examinations.
Centre had then asked for all school, university, engineering and technical entrance exams to be postponed and to be rescheduled after March 31.
The ministry also said all the evaluation work may also be rescheduled after March 31.
The Board, before the announcement of country-wide lockdown which was declared on March 24, had said the exams from March 19 to March 31 were postponed.
"Rescheduled dates will be communicated by the board to all its stakeholders by 31.03.2020 after re-assessment of the situation," Anurag Tripathi, CBSE Secretary said in a release on March 19.
In a related development recently, the NTA postponed the JEE Main and NEET exams till the last week of May.
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