CBSE Board Exams 2020: Students with special needs requiring scribes can skip remaining exams

Students with disabilities who require a scribe to write their exams will now be allowed by CBSE to skip their remaining exam, the Board announced. 

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced that all those students with disabilities who need scribes to write their exams will be allowed to skip the remaining exams that will be conducted in July.

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The Board will be conducting the remaining CBSE 10^th exam for a section of students in North-East Delhi in July along with  CBSE 12^th exams 2020 from July 1 to 15. On May 18, CBSE had released the revised Class 10 date sheet 2020 and CBSE Class 12 date sheet 2020.

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The CBSE has said that it will devise an “alternative assessment scheme” for students with disabilities who do not appear for the exams. The decision has been taken by the Board keeping in mind the social distancing norms to be followed to contain the spread of coronavirus.

"In case children with special needs availing the facility of scribe do not wish to appear in the forthcoming examination because of noncompliance of social distancing norms, the students can inform their respective schools and their result will be declared as per the assessment scheme to be decided by the board," a senior board official said, a media house reported.

CBSE grants several exemptions to children with disabilities in accordance with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

In a notification, the Board stated that: "In case children with special needs availing the facility of scribe do not wish to appear in the forthcoming examination because of noncompliance of social distancing norms, their result will be declared as per the assessment scheme to be decided by the board."

"In addition to extra time, scribe or reader, computer or laptop (without internet), from this year we had also allowed use of basic calculators for candidates registered under CWSN (children with special needs) category," the official said.

The total number of candidates under CWSN categories including visually impaired, dyslexics, muscular dystrophy, spastics, locomotor impairment, dwarfism and others, are 6,844 for Class 10 and 3,718 for CBSE Class 12 exams.

The Board is expected to announce CBSE 10th Result 2020 and CBSE 12th Result 2020 by July-end. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, CBSE had postponed the Class 10 and 12 exams in the country.  This is the first time, that the Board will be announcing the Class 10 Results and Class 12 Result by July-end or August first week.

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