Kerala SSLC, Class 12th Board exams to be conducted after lockdown is lifted

The Kerala State Education Department will conduct class 10 and class 12 board examinations a week after the lockdown is lifted.

The Kerala State Education Department is planning to conduct the class 10 and class 12 board examinations a week after phase two lockdown is lifted.

As per the media reports, this was confirmed by Kerala State Education Department to the high power committee chaired by State Chief Secretary Tom Jose. The report stated that the State Education Department is ready to conduct the Kerala SSLC and Kerala 12th Board examination a week after the lockdown is over.

However, the final decision on conducting the examination will be taken based on the coronavirus situation in the state and if the lockdown is lifted on May 3, 2020 or not. 

Earlier, the State Education Department had announced that it will not be conduct class 8 and 9 end-term examinations and will promote the students to the next grade.

Along with Kerala SSLC and Plus Two examinations, Kerala University has also released a notification stating that the university plans to begin the university examinations in the second week of May 2020. 

According to an official notification, the university can resume the examinations for the different programmes by the second week of May 2020. According to reports, the decision of conducting the examinations was made after a meeting of the examination monitoring committee which was chaired by the VP Mahadevan Pillai, Vice-Chancellor, Kerala University.

However, the University examination calendar will not release before May 3, 2020. The University is waiting for the public transport system comes back in action and permission is granted by the state government to conduct University exams.

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