Exams in a pandemic
April 11, 2021
For several months, a debate has been continuing in the country over the holding of the Cambridge Assessment International Education ‘O’ and ‘A’ level exams in the last week of April. The matter has now been taken to the Sindh High Court by a student, who has asked in her petition why thousands of Cambridge examination students are being subjected to danger at a time when the federal education ministry has ordered the closure of almost all classes of educational institutions in the country till April 28, and will review the decision at that time. She has also pointed out that all board examinations conducted by bodies based within Pakistan have been delayed till late May. In addition, the petition questions why Pakistan did not make a decision to base Cambridge results on school-based assessments as happened in the UK, Oman, UAE and Saudi Arabia rather than external exams, for which students will need to gather at examination centres.
O, A Level students take govt to court for decision to have exams amid coronavirus pandemic
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SHC issues notices to federal education ministry, Cambridge Assessment International Education and NCOC.
Petition says govt failed to explain why, unlike UK, Saudi Arabia, UAE, it opted to hold physical exams as opposed to school-assessed grades.
Plea wants SHC to declare govt decision to conduct physical exams of O-A level students unlawful.
KARACHI: Students who will be appearing for the O and A level exams this year have approached the Sindh High Court (SHC) against the federal government’s decision to hold the assessments amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Karachi
April 10, 2021
The Sindh High Court issued notices to the federal education ministry, the Cambridge Assessment International Education and the National Command and Operation Centre on a petition of Cambridge advanced level students against the federal government’s decision that the A and O level students would sit their exams in person.
Sehar Fatima and others submitted in the petition that the federal government had decided that A and AS level exams scheduled to begin on April 26 and the O level exams will be conducted on May 10 as per schedule.
They said the decision had sent a shock wave and concern through the thousands of students enrolled in O, A and AS level programmes, as it was beyond any reasonable person’s comprehension that on the one hand the government deemed it risky and dangerous for students from 1 to 12 grades across the country to either attend physical classes or exams in the ongoing third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, but on the other they did n
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Hadiqa Kiani, Asim Azhar request Shafqat Mehmood to cancel CAIE examinations
Earlier, students had staged a protest against the planned examination of A and O levels in April and May.
Demanding teacher-assessed grades, dozens of students of the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) system staged a protest outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on April 2 against the planned O and A Level examinations in April and May.
After studying online for the whole year, they said that they would not appear for tests in classrooms. The protesting students and their parents demanded the federal government to cancel the CAIE examinations in light of the pandemic. Like other countries, they asked for marking to be done on the basis of teacher assessed grades.