CBSE Board Exam 2021 Meeting Decision: Know centre's proposals

NEW DELHI: In a meeting with a group of ministers, state education ministers and chairpersons of state education boards, the central government placed two options before states on conduction of CBSE 12th board exams 2021.

The first option is to conduct CBSE Class 12 exams in the traditional way. Students have to write only a few major subjects in the exam and based on that the marks will be evaluated. He explained, if there are 200 subjects in a board then exam will be taken for 20 subjects and other subjects marks will evaluated on the basis students performance in these subjects

The second option was given to change the exam pattern of CBSE 12th board exam 2021. The exam can be of objective type questions and lasts just one-and-half hours instead of three. Students will be given a choice to choose their subjects for the exam.

Which proposal was accepted by states?

He further added that several states opposed the plan of holding any exam at all and demanded "zero exams". Whereas, around eight-nine states agreed with the proposal. To ensure the health of students it is needed that they should be vaccinated before they can be made to write exams, including major public entrance exams such as JEE and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medicine.

Delhi's education minister, Manish Sisodia in his conference said, after discussing with several public and private school principals, teachers, students and parents we find out it is not a good decision to take any exam during this pandemic situation. Delhi government will also write a letter to the central government to request not to conduct CBSE 12th examination in such a situation.

He also made a proposal that CBSE Class 12 students should be passed based on their historical performance of the past 2-3 years. The marks can be evaluated based on past performance and if any student is not satisfied with the allotted marks then he/she can appear in the optional examination after the situation normalizes.

The country's 1.5 crore teachers and 1.5 crore students should all be vaccinated first. "We must speak to health experts about whether we can use the vaccines available to us on students who are 17.5 years old. We can’t put students and teachers' lives in danger to our desire to uphold exam traditions and rules" the Delhi’s education minister added.

As reported by NDTV news, "In today's meeting with CBSE, we discussed that providing a safe environment for students is our priority. We will tell the SC that last year was unfortunate for students. 2nd #COVID19 wave is going on and an anticipated 3rd wave is yet to come," Maharashtra Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad said after attending the same meeting.

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