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This is an archive article published on June 2, 2021
CBSE Class 12 exams cancelled: Pune schools welcome decision
Many city principals however said that the students are in a panic mode since they have not appeared for internal exams wholeheartedly.
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Schools themselves can make representations to the Regional Office if they find that there has been a mistake in the computation of uploading of the result of a candidate.For the last several days now, CBSE school teachers have not only been busy with calculating the results of Class X students based on a unique marking formula shared by the board but have also been acting as counsellors to anxious Class XII students who were unsure of the fate of their final exams. The uncertainty ended on Tuesday evening as the CBSE board announced the cancellation of Class XII exams and that the results will be compiled as per “well-defined objective criteria”.
Most city school principals welcomed the decision which they said was much needed. “Actually, calculating marks based on internal evaluations isn’t that difficult for schools since we have already conduct unit, semester and prelim examinations. In fact, at our school, we were supposed to conduct our fourth pre-board exam from tomorrow, which we are going to go ahead with anyway now, as a practice test to students. As an educationist, I do not believe that a three-hour exam was a fair assessment of what the student studies all year around and I believe that the COVID year has provided us all with a fresh perspective. I think that a different kind of marking, based on an entire year’s performance and involvement of students, is more humane and even accurate assessment,” said Jayshree Venkatraman, principal, SNBP School.
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Many city principals however said that the students are in a panic mode since they have not appeared for internal exams wholeheartedly.
“It’s a mixed reaction… parents are happy with the exam cancellation as the risk of Covid-19 will no longer haunt the children, but they are worried about the results too. Since last evening, we have received several calls from students who are panicking. They are anxious what the objective criteria will be to calculate results. Actually, with Class 12 being a board exam year, students may not have written school exams seriously, assuming the marks won’t be counted and these are practice tests. Though at the school we have conducted two unit tests, semesters and prelim exams,” said Damini Joshi, principal of Sanskriti School.
“Honestly, we thought that cancellation of board exams for Class 12 was a remote possibility since for students taking up professional courses, they have competitive exams for admissions but what about other students going for traditional courses? Now that board exams are cancelled, we are waiting for this objective criterion to come out and may later decide to hold a pre-board exam for students, if need be,” she added.
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