Postpone CBSE Board Exams 2021 to May, reduce the syllabus
Will 2021 of CBSE 10th exam delay because of coronavirus?
Delhi Government has written a letter to CBSE, asking the central board to reduce the syllabus further and delay the CBSE board examinations till May 2021.
Delhi Government has written a letter to the Central Board
of Secondary Education, CBSE, urging it to postpone the March 2021 Board
Examinations to May. The state government has also asked the central board to
consider reducing the CBSE 10th 12th Board Exam 2021 syllabus further, as the
schools continue to remain closed due to the pandemic.
Schools in India have remained closed for nearly 7 months in
this academic year. While the Central Government has now permitted the
reopening of schools, states have decided to defer it. Many states, including
Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Odisha, etc. have decided to keep the
schools closed, even for students of classes 9 to 12 till at least October 31.
With the schools closed, the Delhi Governments (where most
schools are affiliated to CBSE) have written a letter, asking for more time
before the Board Examinations are conducted. Delhi, too, has decided to keep
the schools closed till October 31.
"Though online, semi-online teaching-learning
activities are being conducted through live classes as well as worksheets or
activity sheets but it cannot replace the physical classroom teaching-learning
process," the DoE said in the letter written to CBSE.
"In order to provide students with a reasonable time to
study in person in schools, it is requested that the on-going academic session
be extended beyond March and CBSE board exams be conducted not before May,
2021. Consequently, the next academic session may commence from July,
2021," it added. Incidentally, the letter comes days after reports that
CBSE and CISCE are mulling reducing the syllabus further and delaying the board
exams by 45-60 days.
Furthermore, the government has also asked CBSE to consider
reducing the syllabus further to accommodate the truncated classroom time. The
board has also asked the CBSE Sample Papers 2021 (which were released last
week) to be further revised as per the reduced syllabus.
"The CBSE had reduced 30 percent of the syllabus in all
subjects in anticipation of the opening of schools in July but schools in Delhi are
closed till October 31. It is also requested that sample question papers
aligned with the further-reduced syllabus for the session 2020-21 maybe
prepared as per the latest question paper design and made available for the
students at the earliest," the DoE said.
"Practical and project work are an integral part of any
subject that includes the assessment of desired skills and competencies. It is
pertinent to give students hands-on practice for the same for a sufficient
period of time. It is requested that the board may provide detailed guidelines
regarding the conduct of these practical exams under such conditions or any
other alternate mode to replace the practical part of the subject," states
the letter.
CBSE Board Exams for classes 10 and 12 are conducted in the month of February to April. The board had revised the dates from 2019, to begin the Board Exams from February 15 instead of its customary March 1 dates. This year, however, there are wide speculations that the Board Exams may be pushed to May, to compensate for the closure of schools in the country since March 2020.
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