Vijay Rupani: Class 12 Exams Will Be Conducted, Once COVID-19 Situation Is Under Control

On Saturday, Gujrat's chief minister, Vijay Rupani announced that the class 12 exams will be conducted, as soon as the COVID-19 situation improves. "The exams however will be conducted once the Covid situation is under control," said Vijay Rupani.

Vijay Rupani favoured the cancellation of class 10 board exam

Earlier, the Gujrat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSEB), had cancelled the class 10 exams, and promoted all the regular students to the next class. This was done due to the unprecedented rise in the COVID-19 cases in the state.

The decision for the same was taken in a core committee meeting, chaired by Vijay Rupani, and Gujrat's education minister, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama.

The board exams for class 10 were supposed to be conducted from May 10 to 25. After the exams got cancelled, all the regular students who were supposed to give the exam were directly promoted to class 11. Students from 1,276 government schools, 5,325 grant-in-aid schools, 4,331 self-financed schools and 45 other schools were going to appear for the exam.

Vijay Rupani: Class 12 Exams Will Be Conducted, Once COVID-19 Situation Is Under Control

Earlier, the state's education department had made a decision to promote all students from class 1 to 9, and class 11 to the next class.

Recently, the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) also decided to postpone the class 12 and cancel the class 10 exams. In addition to this, the board stated that it will make an announcement regarding the class 12 board exam at least 20 days in advance.

The board has also decided on an evaluation criteria for assessing class 10 students. It will now take students’ performance in the internal assessments, half-yearly exams, unit tests and other exams into consideration. However, if a student has secured less than the passing marks, they will be directly promoted to the next class with grace marks.

If there are students who haven't appeared for any of the aforementioned tests, they will not be promoted to the next class.