With the release of the marking scheme, it is believed that the exam dates for Class 10 and 12 will also be released by CBSE soon. However, the Board may release the date sheet on January 10, 2017.
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Last week, the Board released the date of the practical exam for Class 10 and 12 Board examinations, 2018 and shared the same with the affiliated schools through a notice sent out to them.
The practical exams for Class 10 and 12 exam are set to start from January 16, 2018. All the schools have been informed about the date and instructed to upload the practical marks on the website by February 25, 2018.
As per reports, the Board might consider starting the exams from February 26 or 27 taking into account the festival of Holi. However, there is no confirmation in this regard from CBSE.
As the festival of Holi would be celebrated on March 1 and 2 across the country, the Board is likely to start the exams before March or push the exams to March 3 or 4.
The Board is likely to release the Class 10 and Class 12 exams’ date sheet in January 2018. Last year, the date sheet was released on January 9.
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Meanwhile, the CBSE Class 10 2018 exam is likely to be completed in March while the Class 12 exam is expected to be extended till third week of April 2018.
Moreover, with an aim to make the education environment better for students with special needs, the Board has formed a committee to formulate new policies.
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It is believed that the new policy will help the students with special needs enhance their performance in Class 10 and 12 board exams.
The news has come as a relief for parents of the students with special needs who have been complaining the CBSE of poor education environment provided to these kids which has so far resulted poor performance of such students in their Class 10 and 12 board exams.
CBSE has formed the new committee to change the education infrastructure and teaching process for these kids so that they can perform equally well in their exams, said media reports.
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The new committee will find ways for students with special needs so that they can learn better at schools. Besides, teachers will be attending workshops on behavioural problems of special kid helping them to ensure these kids get equal opportunities in CBSE schools.
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Meanwhile, CBSE has confirmed that the CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 exams will be conducted in March and not in February. The confirmation from the Board came amidst rumours that the CBSE has decided to advance the 2018 board examinations of Class 10 and Class 12 to February.
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As per the reports, the Board is working on the formalities of the exams’ dates and the stakeholders will be intimated about it once it is ready.
"The school boards may continue with their moderation policy and grant marks for papers with "unusually difficult" or "ambiguous" questions and offer a level-playing field to all students in the evaluation process," the advisory issued by school education secretary Anil Swarup read.
“Bunching of marks and spiking should be completely avoided. The practice of awarding grace marks should continue to pass their borderline cases (students who are failing by a few marks)," it further stated.
Earlier, CBSE and 32 other boards, in a meeting on April 24 this year, had decided to do away with the spiking of marks or the moderation system as some state boards were seen increasing marks of their students, spiking their overall pass percentage.
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However, the Delhi High Court had asked the CBSE not to scrap the policy stating that it was not advisable to implement the change 'mid-way'.
Meanwhile, CBSE is likely to develop model sample question papers for all the boards to ensure uniformity in the papers of various boards. And the awarded grace marks will be mentioned in the mark sheets of students.
The sample question papers is expected to help states decide how many questions should be difficult, easy and what type of questions should be used. Depending on the state’s requirement they will use the sample questions to develop their own question papers. This is likely to bring in greater uniformity in the evaluation system.
The inter-board working group headed by the chairman of CBSE, RK Chaturvedi had made the recommendations in a meeting on August 28.
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The schedule has been decided in order to ensure that the board exams are completed before competitive examinations such as engineering entrance JEE-Mains, which is scheduled from July 18-23, and medical entrance exam NEET, which is scheduled on July 26.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has not yet notified the exam schedule.
The CBSE shared a Press Release on its Twitter handle on Friday stating that "CBSE will hold remaining class X and XII exams between 1-15 July 2020. The information regarding details of the subjects for which exams will be held is given in press release dated 1.4.2020 issued by the CBSE. Date sheet for the rescheduled board's examinations shall be communicated by the board through its website and press release soon."
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— CBSE HQ (@cbseindia29) May 8, 2020
The board is also yet to announce the modalities for assessment of the exams which will not be conducted as well as guidelines for examination centres to ensure social distancing.
"The students have been impatiently waiting for the schedule for pending exams. It has been decided today that the exams will be conducted from July 1 to 15," Nishank said.
While class 12 exams will be conducted across the country, the class 10 exams are only pending in North East Delhi where they were affected due to the law and order situation.
The board had last month announced that it will only conduct pending exams in 29 subjects which are crucial for promotion and admission to higher educational institutions.
Universities and schools across the country have been closed and exams postponed since March 16 when the Centre announced a countrywide classroom shutdown as one of the measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.
Later, a nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24, which has now been extended till May 17.
"The board was not able to conduct exams for class 10 and 12 on eight examination days due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Further, due to the law and order situation in North East Delhi, the board was not able to conduct exams on four examination days, while a very small number of students from and around this district were not able to appear in exams on six days," a senior CBSE official said.
"A detailed schedule is expected to be announced by next week," the official said, adding the board is also working on resuming the evaluation of answer scripts, which was stopped in March due to the nationwide lockdown.
The HRD minister had last month also directed that evaluation be started for the already conducted board exams and appealed states to facilitate the same.
One of the options being considered is to deliver the answer scripts to the examiners at home, however, no final decision has been announced yet.
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.
The IIT Counselling process hinges on when CBSE and respective state boards announce results for the class 12 board exams. To seek admission to one of the IITs, aspirants who have cleared JEE Advanced should have also secured at least 75 per cent marks in their board exams. JEE-Advanced has been scheduled on August 23.
(With Agency Inputs)