CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021: Exam NOT CANCELLED, dates to be announced soon
A high-level meeting was chaired by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday, to discuss the conduct of CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021.
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Updated: May 23, 2021, 05:15 PM IST
A high-level meeting was chaired by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday, to discuss the conduct of CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021 and entrance examinations for professional courses including JEE Main, JEE Advanced, and NEET.
Reports suggest that the meeting is over without any consensus. No final decision regarding the conduct of Class 12 board exams has been taken yet.
The government had proposed two options – one to hold exams for only limited subjects and two to hold exams for all subjects but reduce the time for each exam from 3 hours to 1.5 hours and change questions to MCQ and short questions type only.
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Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Sunday asked states to send their detailed suggestions regarding the conduct of Class 12 board examinations in detail. Earlier in the day, a high-level meeting chaired by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was held to deliberate on the issue.
Highlights
The Ministry of Education to decide the fate of the pending Class 12 board exams and the subsequent entrance exams
Exams were postponed in view of the second wave of COVID-19
Manish Sisodia said the education system has its own compulsions but considering the extreme circumstances, they can be put aside
New Delhi: The Delhi government is not in favour of the CBSE exploring options to conduct the Class 12 board examinations and going ahead with the process without vaccinating the students will prove to be a big mistake, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Sunday (May 23).
He said this during a high-level meeting called by the Ministry of Education to decide the fate of the pending Class 12 board exams and the subsequent entrance exams, which were postponed in view of the second wave of COVID-19.