Supreme Court to hear plea against offline board exams 2022 today? Here’s what students demand

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is likely to hear a plea against offline board exams 2022 today, February 21. A petition was filed by students of 15 states seeking direction to state boards including Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) to adopt an alternate mode of assessment in Class 10, 12 board exams 2022 instead of conducting offline exams.

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Demand of Students

• Students demand cancellation of board exams 2022.
• Students demand that CBSE, CISCE, and state boards like BSEB, MPBSE should adopt an alternate mode of assessment for Class 10, 12.
• The petition also seeks relief for conducting an improvement exam for those students who are not satisfied with the internal assessment.
• The petition seeks to form a committee for deciding the formula of assessment of Class 10, 12 students including compartment exams and declaration of result on time.

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The petition states that the boards have been mum over the ongoing situation and not taken a thoughtful decision regarding the board examinations and declaration of Class 10, 12 results.

While some state boards like Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh etc. have released board exams schedules, others are still discussing the ways forward. "The students are dissatisfied by this kind of behavior of the State government and other boards and stressed and worried about their future and career,” the plea argued.

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"Students in all the States are very worried about conducting the 10th and 12th board examination due to high rate of growth of COVID-19 cases in all over Country along with the high possibility of 3rd wave which will affect the students very badly, and also due to incompletion of course in this pandemic situation,” the petition further said.