No mid-term exam for Classes 8, 9 from this year: Nagaland Board

NEW DELHI: The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) has announced that there will be no mid-term exams for Classes 8 and 9 from the academic year 2024 onwards. The board has already conducted phase 1 and phase 2 exams for both the classes in September and December 2023.

The decision to cancel the mid-term exams for NBSE Class 8 and 9 was taken to gain more teaching days and in order to shift towards a semester structured pattern of secondary education as envisioned in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

As per the changes introduced, students should secure the minimum qualifying marks or grades in aggregate, when phase 1 and 2 taken together, to be promoted to the next higher class.

“All institutions are to enter the marks in the PCR (Pupil Cumulative Record) as follows: Phase-I marks in the First Evaluation Column; phase-Il marks in the second Evaluation column and the consolidated marks of the Phase-I & II shall be entered in the Third Evaluation column,” the board said.

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NBSE Class 8, 9 final results

72 schools in the state have not yet uploaded the final results of Class 8 and 9, the board observed. “Therefore, these schools are directed to upload their results (Form 29 and 33 CSV) in the portal nbsenl.edu.in/schooUlogin on or before 20th January 2024 failing which the results of the concerned school shall be treated as nil,” it said. Results shared through email will not be accepted, it added.

Nagaland Board Class 8 students appeared in social sciences, English, mathematics, grammar, Hindi in phase 2 exams. Class 9 students appeared in social sciences, English, mathematics, Tenyidie, Ao, Sumi (Siitsah), Lotha, Hindi, Bengali, alternative English, sixth and vocational subjects.

Last year in July, the state government urged the Centre to allow it to continue the use of English as the medium of teaching in schools instead of mother tongue. The state 17 recognised major Naga tribes speaking their own languages with no officially declared common dialect. However, the official language of the state is Indian English.