CBSE Board Exams 2021: School principals not in favor of board exam postponement

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia also raised the issue at NCERT's council meeting last month chaired by Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'.

CBSE Board Exams 2021: According to the latest reports, several school principals in the national capital and adjoining areas are not in favour of postponement of the CBSE board exams next year in view of the continuing closure of schools due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation. Calling it "not the right" the school principals believe that the postponement of CBSE 10th board exams and CBSE 12th board exams will impact the schedule of higher education entrance exams and admission processes as well, which will be disturbing for students.

Last month, the Delhi government drafted a letter to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) urging them not to conduct the 10th, 12th board exams next year before May and further reduce syllabus as schools still continue to remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia also raised the issue at NCERT's council meeting last month chaired by Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'.

"Postponing the board exams can have some serious repercussions on the students' growth and performance preparing via remote learning. As this session was attributed to getting familiar with remote learning tools, by both the students and teachers," said Priyanka Barara, Principal, Delhi International School. She further added, "With no concrete update on vaccines, we don't see parents allowing their wards to return to school. Therefore, we would not like to repeat the pattern of losing time again by supporting the delay in board exams," she added.

Stating that a major chunk of time of the 2020-21 academic session (approximately seven months) could not be utilised for the classroom teaching-learning process as schools in Delhi are closed until October 31, the Delhi government wrote the letter to the Directorate of Education (DoE) of CBSE. The latest notification releaswed by the state government also states that the Delhi government has decided to maintain the status quo on schools' closure till further orders.

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