CBSE Board Exams 2020, NEET , JEE Mains Fresh Dates likely to be announced on Monday

The HRD Minister is conducting various meeting to dicussion the manner and dates of the CBSE Board Exams 2020, NEET 2020 and JEE. A decision on the conduction of these exams is expected to be announced in the coming week.

The Human Resource and Development Minister, Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank is all set to announce fresh dates for CBSE 10^th, CBSE 12^th board exams and NEET 2020, JEE 2020 entrance tests. In the midst of the growing criticism against the conduction of the CBSE Board Exams 2020, parents and students restlessly demanded postponement of the CBSE, JEE NEET exams.

According to the reports, the Union Human Resources Development Ministry is set to announce its revised decisions by early next week. Last month the ministry decided that CBSE 10^th board exams 2020 and CBSE 12^th Board Exams 2020 will be conducted between July 1 and July 15. However, the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main will be held between July 18-23 and the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) will be conducted on July 26.

The Sources in the ministry revealed that Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the health ministry started their discussion and consultations on the manner and dates for these examinations again.

The official said, “Many states are not in favour of conducting board examinations at all and have suggested that marking in the remaining papers be done on the basis of averaging of other papers and internal assessment done in schools earlier as calling students on examination centres amid rising Covid-19 cases can be very risky.”

“In such a scenario, the ministry too feels that the board examinations be cancelled and a final decision is likely to be announced by Monday,” he added.

The official also revealed that MHRD met Home Minister Amit Shah on June 19, 2020, to discuss these matters. Another meeting was held with Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on June 20, evening on the same.

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Is Cancellation of CBSE 10th 12th Board Exams 2020, NEET 2020 and JEE 2020, possible?

Meanwhile, Maharashtra, Delhi and Odisha earlier asked the Centre to consider cancelling the CBSE 10^th, 12 examinations and the Supreme Court too asked the CBSE to take a decision in this regard by next week.

Officials however conceded that while cancelling the board examinations was still a viable option seeing the pandemic situation in the country, the National Testing Agency, that conducts NEET and JEE (Main) 2020 has not been able to decide on the fate of these entrance tests.

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Talking about the cancellation of CBSE, NEET and JEE Main 2020, another official said, “Considering that these tests are extremely important for lakhs of students looking for careers in medicine and engineering—not holding the examinations are not the option but the question being discussed is how to do that ensuring minimum risk possible to candidates and teachers.

A proposal of conducting NEET 2020 in both online and offline modes in a staggered manner is given to avoid crowd in examination centre. However, the picture will become clear in the coming week as nothing is decided yet!

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