Students can appear for optional subjects in Maharashtra HSC board exams this year
The new batch of students seeking admissions to FYJC this year will not be given these subject options by junior colleges
Students appearing for Class 12 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) board examinations will be allowed to appear for the chosen optional subjects this year, directed the state school education department. The department released a government resolution (GR) on Monday allowing students of HSC board one last chance to appear for optional subject exams that were not in the Group A, B and C option given to junior colleges.
Flashback in Outgoing 2020: Students bear the brunt of corona
Md Solamain Salman
# Corona throws education sector into disarray
# Over 40 million students out of classrooms
# Govt compelled to cancel PEC, JSC, HSC exams
The academic life of over 40 million students and livelihood of thousands of teachers have been badly affected in the country in the outgoing 2020 year as the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the education sector into disarray.
Since the beginning of this year, coronavirus has been upending public life, forcing the authorities to keep all educational institutions closed.
Millions of students from primary to university level have been worst affected as the traditional classroom learning has come to a complete halt due to the corona pandemic.
When the Covid-19 outbreak led to a closure of educational institutions in late March, students, guardians and teachers alike speculated that the disruption would last a few months.
But with a continuous surge in infections and deaths, the pandemic is now likely to keep many students out of the classrooms until well into 2021.
It has changed how students are being taught, and left the education system scrambling to meet the needs of schools, families and over four crore students over the last year.
With traditional classroom learning coming to a complete halt, the pandemic compelled the government to take measures like promoting students to the next class without having them sit for final exams a move not seen in recent memory. It also caused many private schools, especially kindergartens, to close down for good.
Maharashtra re-exams: SSC outplays HSC in results
Pass percentage sees major improvement for Class 10 in Mumbai and state while it drops in Class 12 this year
The overall pass percentage of Class 10 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) board re-examination improved from last year and stood at 29.88 per cent in Mumbai and 32.60 per cent in Maharashtra, as re-examination or ATKT results were declared on Wednesday. For Class 12 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) board re-examinations, the pass percentage dropped as compared to the previous year and stood at 16.42 per cent in Mumbai and 18.41 per cent in Maharashtra.
The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) on Wednesday announced the results of re-examinations or ATKT exams of Class 10 (SSC) students that were conducted from November 20 to December 5, 2020. The re-exams of Class 12 board (general and bifocal) were conducted from November 20 to December 10.