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Gandhinagar, April 26: In a significant development, the State Government will do away with the age-old practice of holding SSC and HSC examinations in October for those who fail in March examinations.
Instead of conducting the October examinations for repeters every year, the State Secondary Education Board (SEB) will now allow students, who fail in one subject in the March examination, to write that paper within a month of the results.
The decision will be implemented from the next academic year beginning in June.
Minister of State for Education Anandiben Patel told newspersons today that every March about 65,000 SSC and HSC students took examinations and over 10,000 failed in one subject and were forced to lose one full academic year after clearing the subect in October.
Now such students can write that paper within a month of the results of the March examination and pursue further studies by saving a precious academic year, she said. The results of that subject will be declared at the earliest so that the students could seek admission in higher secondary and colleges in June.
Besides helping such students save one full academic year, the decision will help save huge expenditure being incurred by the Education Department on the October examiations every year. This arrangement has been made by the Rajasthan Government and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Delhi, she said.
Patel, however, clarified that the students who fail in more than one subject in March would have to wait till the next March examinations.
