Tripura board announces TBSE Class 10th, 12th ‘Bochhor Bachao’ exams

TBSE will likely hold the save-a-year exams in the last week of July. The students will have to fill the bochhor bachao Tripura board exam forms and submit it to their respective schools between July 8 and 11.

CISCE will conduct the exam in February. (Express image/ representative)

Nearly a month after the declaration of Class 10 and 12 board exam results, the Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) today announced that it will conduct the bochhor bachao (save-a-year) exams. As many as 7,435 Class 10 and 12 students would appear for the bochhor bachao Tripura board examination. TBSE will likely hold the save-a-year exams in the last week of July.

According to ‘Bochor Bachao’ (save year) scheme introduced by the state government in 2020, students would be guaranteed entry into colleges or into the next class in case of board examinations even if they fail in two subjects, provided that they secure a minimum of 150 marks. They would have to clear a re-test within 75 days of results though to continue higher education.

The students will have to fill the bochhor bachao TBSE exam forms and submit them to their respective schools between July 8 and 11. The schools will have time from July 12 to 15 to submit the Tripura board save a year exam forms at TBSE office

Speaking to the reporters at TBSE office today, the board president Dr Dhananjoy Gan Choudhury said that a total of 2,042 candidates of Class 10 applied for the review of result. Of them, the results of 747 candidates changed, 21 students qualified and seven of them were enlisted for the bochhor bachao examinations.

In case of Class 12, the president added, as many as 1,385 applied for the result review. No students who failed in the board examinations have passed in the review of result and only one candidate is placed in the bochhor bachao after review.

“We shall be conducting the bochhor bachao in the last week of July this year. We shall announce the dates in one week”, said TBSE secretary Dr Dulal Dey.

After review, as many 3,199 Class 10 and 4,236 Class 12 students would appear for the bochhor bachao examinations, he added.

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“As 21 Class 10 students passed after reviewing their examination papers, the total number of passed students now stands at 29,555. Pass percentage is 87.59 percent, a slight increase from the previous results declared in May. Those who passed the examinations after review, only got hike of one or two marks”, he said.

The announcement to conduct Bochor Bachao examinations came two years back but it is even more contextual this year since the results of over a hundred schools that shifted affiliation from the state education board to CBSE under the ambitious Vidyajyoti scheme showed relatively poor results than expected.

The state government has since announced a set of remedial measures including special classes and modernised education approach even as the opposition CPIM and Congress parties held protests in different parts of the state and criticised the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government’s policy for the purported poor results.

Previously affiliated to TBSE, 125 schools were brought under the affiliation of CBSE during BJP regime to improve quality education in 2022.

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The TBSE, earlier in May, declared results of Class 10 and 12 that recorded 87.54 percent and 79.27 percent respectively. In Class 10 board examinations, a total of 33,739 including 17952 female students and a total of 25,350 students of Class 12 including 13,334 female students wrote in their board examinations this year. Last year, the pass percentages of Class 10 and Class 12 were 86.02 percent and 83.24 percent respectively.