UP govt schools to conduct remedial classes for Classes 9 to 12

NEW DELHI: Officials decide to run remedial classes for secondary school students in subjects Hindi, English, science, mathematics among others. Remedial classes will be conducted over the span of three-and-a-half-months, starting from October till January 15.

The state project director of Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan Shambhu Kumar issues guidelines for these classes as department tries to understand the reasons for low performance by govt school students. Approximately 4.45 lakh students from government-run secondary schools will benefit from this initiative. The UP education department has identified 98,057 students from classes 9 and 10 and 3,47,729 students of class 11 and 12 who are to attend these classes.

The following are a few ways schools identifies the students who can make the most of these remedial classes, If a school notices multiple absences from a student, when a student shows poor memory skills or if they are a slow learner or lack confidence in their skills. Even the absence of a faculty for a long period of time or any personal reasons were also taken into consideration. "The department wants to improve results of the students studying in government schools and hence it was decided to start remedial classes," said an official.

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To ensure results, the students will be assessed on three different days. The first assessment will be held by October 10 to test the foundation of each student. The second evaluation will be conducted from November 5 to 12 and the third from December 27 to January 15. The schools will hold quizzes after every chapter to understand the learning outcome of the students. The parents of these students will be contacted periodically about the progress of their children.

If the school lacks faculty for any required subject, special arrangements will be made through district inspectors of schools or the basic shiksha adhikari from the nearest nearest aided, unaided or pre-secondary school.

The principals of these govt schools are asked to reduce five minutes from each class to accumulate an extra 40 minutes for daily remedial classes. These classes were created for 'academically weak' students, however, if any other student wishes to participate in these classes voluntarily, they are welcome to do so.