Karachi
April 24, 2021
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday upheld the decision of the federal education ministry and the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) with regard to holding in-person examinations of A and O levels students in the country, and rejected students’ request for awarding school assessed grades in lieu of in-person exams.
The high court, however, directed the education ministry, NCOC and Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) to ensure strict compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) during the exams.
Petitioners Sehar Fatima and others had submitted in the petition that the federal government had decided that A and AS levels exams would begin on April 26 and O level exams would be conducted from May 10 onwards as per the schedule, which was discriminatory as on the one hand, the government had deemed it risky and dangerous for students from 1 to 12 across the country to either attend physical classes or take exams during the