HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced dates for CBSE Class 12 exams
CBSE Board Class 12 Exam Date 2020 HIGHLIGHTS: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will hold pending exams for classes 10 and 12 from July 1 to July 15. This includes pending class 12 exams and class 10 exams from the riot-hit North East area. Further, the result for the class 12 boards will be announced before the JEE Advanced releases its merit list, a source had told The Indian Express.
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The board will conduct examinations on 29 subjects which are important for college admissions. For Class 12, the remaining papers include business studies, geography, Hindi (core), Hindi (elective), home science, sociology, computer science (old), computer science (new), information practice (old), information practice (new), information technology and bio-technology.
The HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has also announced the dates for JEE Main, NEET. The JEE Main will be conducted between July 18 and 23, while the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is scheduled to be conducted on July 26. The JEE Advanced will be held on August 23. The dates for the UGC NET, IGNOU entrance exams will be announced soon.
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The HRD Minister has announced that CBSE will start the evaluation process for the exam which has already taken place. The valuation process will be held from over 3000 evaluation centers from May 10 onwards. These evaluation centers will ensure that answer scripts are provided to teachers at their homes. Over 1.5 crore answer scripts will be evaluated.
As per the schedule announced earlier, the CBSE class 10 exams were to end by March 20 for class 12 the last exam was scheduled on March 30, however, the exams were postponed due to the coronavirus. The CBSE class 12 board exams are pre-requisite for both entrance-based as well as merit-based college entrance exams. Thus the result is also likely to be announced before the session begins. The new session, as per UGC will begin in September. Usually, the sessions begin from July, however, the pandemic has delayed the process.
After the announcement of HRD Ministry that the exams will begin from June and government sources confirming that the result of the same will be declared by August-end, the CBSE has released a statement claiming that the detailed exam schedule will be announced soon. "CBSE will hold remaining class X and XII exams between 1-15th July 2020. Date sheet for the rescheduled board's examinations shall be communicated by the board through its website and press release soon," the board stated.
For the February exam, CBSE had set-up 5376 exam centres for Class 10 and 4983 for Class 12 in India. Additionally, 79 exam centres for class 10 and 72 centres for class 12 were functional in foreign schools. The number is likely to change for the remaining exams.
There are a total number of 18,89,878 candidates in Class 10 and 12,06,893 in class 12 this year. Out of these, there are 788195 girls, 1101664 boys and 19 transgenders in class 10 while there are 5,22,819 girls, 684068 boys, and 6 transgenders in class 12 who are appearing for CBSE board exams this year. The exams started in February.
1.Business Studies,
2. Geography,
3.Hindi (Elective),
4.Hindi (Core),
5.Home Science,
6.Sociology,
7.Computer Science (Old),
8.Computer Science (New),
9.Information Practice (Old)
10.Information Practice (new),
11.Information Technology,
12.Bio-Tech
1.Hindi Course A,
2.Hindi Course B,
3.English Comm,
4.English Language and Literature,
5. Science,
6.Social Science
During a live interaction with students, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had asked state boards to start their evaluation process. Pokhriyal also directed the CBSE to facilitate checking of answer scripts by teachers in their respective states. The evaluation process for most of the board exams has been put on hold due to the lockdown.
For the upcoming session, the CBSE is likely to reduce the syllabus. The HRD Ministry had informed, "CBSE will assess the loss of instructional time for a proportionate reduction in curriculum load for exams. In accordance, course committees of the Board has initiated work on the reduced syllabus in various scenarios"
The results for the 29 Class 12 exams will most likely be announced by August-end, before the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) declare the merit list for JEE Advanced.
CBSE is also working on resuming the evaluation of answer scripts, which was stopped in March due to the nationwide lockdown. One of the options being considered is to deliver the answer scripts to the examiners at home
For Class 12, CBSE will conduct exams for business studies, geography, Hindi (core), Hindi (elective), home science, sociology, computer science (old), computer science (new), information practice (old), information practice (new), information technology and bio-technology. That apart, all the tests that Class 12 students of North East Delhi could NOT take will also be held.
For Class 10, only exams for students of North East Delhi, who could not appear for the examination due to the riots, will be held
On April 1, CBSE had announced that it will conduct exams for 29 subjects out of the approximately 90 that were left around the time the nationwide lockdown was imposed.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will hold the remaining Class 12 papers in the first two weeks of July, The Indian Express had learnt. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced the exams will be held from July 1 to July 15