Valley school exams to start from Oct 29, no curtailment in syllabus

SRINAGAR: Putting to rest all speculations on government postponing the examinations in view of continued 68-day-long shutdown in Valley, the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education on Friday announced the schedule for annual examinations of class 10th and 12th in Kashmir and Jammu division’s winter zone.
The class 10th examinations will commence from October 29 and will culminate on November 16, while as exams for class 12 will start a day later from October 30 and would end on November 28.
The exams are announced at a time when efforts of the State administration to reopen schools in the Valley have been failing time and again. While staff members are present at all the major educational institutions across the region, the students are preferring to stay home even as tensions are still running high, since August 5 in the wake of scrapping of Article 370.
After failing at least twice, the government had last week announced that the schools would reopen on October 3 in the valley, even after officials maintaining that it would conduct all ensuing school examinations before the onset of winters in order to save the academic year of students.
On Friday, it announced the date sheets for 10th and 12th class examinations.
An official in JKBOSE said that more than 40,000 students will appear for the class 10 exams, while as for 12th class exam around 48,000 students will sit in the exam.
He added, “We have set up 615 centres for class 10th and 433 centres for class 12th.
He further said, “No relaxation in syllabus will be given to the students of class 10th and class 12th. Moreover, admit cards will be given to the students of two classes’ week ahead of the exams”.
The exams for class 11th students are likely to be held in second week of November.
Through the examination notification, the students have been asked to bring their admit card, registration card on all examination days for verification, while as examination centre has been specified on Admit card.
Students have remained off from the classrooms since 5 August, the day Centre abrogated special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state into separate Union Territories.
Schools and colleges were shut on August 5th. The authorities had decided to reopen primary, middle and high school last month; however the attendance of staff and students continued to remain thin.
Then Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Basheer Khan had said that all the schools in the Valley including higher secondary and colleges will open on 3rd October. However, students did not turn up.
While private institutions in Srinagar had provided study material and lectures to the student from lower KG to higher secondary to keep students engaged with the academics, many community tuition centres have also come up across the valley where students were taught free of cost by local masters and graduate students to prepare pupils for exams.


Updated On 10/12/2019 9:42:43 AM

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