The professors have asked different arrangement for these students. Due to riots, board exams were postponed for these students. It must be noted that 12th class boards have been cancelled for CBSE. Furthermore, the professors expressed uneasiness after CBSE announced declaration of results on basis of internal marks, project assessment.

One of the professor said, students will face problems as CBSE students tend to take internals unimportant.

Cancellation of few exams in North-East Delhi due to Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) riots have increased problems for such students. The Board has decided to declare results on basis of the internal marks.

Datesheet released by CBSE for north-east Delhi students read exams to be between July 1 to July 15 for Science stream, as mentioned by Pankaj Garg, former member of Delhi University’s Academic Council. Additionally, he mentioned that exams for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science and English are still pending for students from north-east Delhi. Moreover, he said that such students will be vulnerable as they will be evaluated on basis of internals. Students do not take these internals seriously, he further mentioned.

He suggested to have a different window for these students, for ones who will take exam at later dates. He further mentioned regarding the opening of universities. As per the current scenario, the same is not likely to open before October.

The registration for Delhi University started on June 20. The window will be opened till July 4. Till now, over 1.76 lakh students have already registered on admission portal. Almost 70,000 students have made payments for the same.

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“There will definitely have to be some rationalization of the syllabus, because there will definitely be some loss of time, even with blended schooling and home schooling,” Mr. Ahuja said during a virtual conference on ‘Future of Schools: Overcoming COVID-19 challenge and beyond’ organized by Ashoka University.

“We cannot bring sudden changes in the education system and create confusion and uncertainty. The curriculum reforms are going to be in sync with the learning outcomes. We are rationalizing the curriculum. We plan to retain the core elements, which are very necessary in terms of learning outcomes,” he added.

He further said, “If something is duplicated in some way or working extra on the same concept, we aim to shelve it, and thirdly anything which can be done in a more practical manner should be done that way. That’s what we are planning and we should be able to finalize within a month’s time,” Hindustan Times reported.

According to him, schools will also be asked to start shifting to a competency-based education system from this academic session. The Board further aims at moving away from the rote-learning, content-based, examination-focussed structure of the Indian education system while, competency-based education looks to map a child’s understanding and application of concepts rather than knowledge of facts.

While this is being considered to be applied in an incremental manner, it means that from the coming academic session, the CBSE’s Class 10 board examinations will include 20% case-based or application-based questions, which have real-life connections. There will be 10% of such questions in the Class 12 board examinations for all subjects as well.

However, the Board’s chairman emphasized that it is important for the wider ecosystem of parents, coaching institutes, higher education institutions, and job recruiters to come on board too and be willing to transform positively from a traditional mindset. He mentioned, “If getting into college or getting a job is still based on the old rote-learning, content-based model, there will be no incentive for change from the demand side. The change needs to be simultaneous,” as stated by the Hindu.

Earlier, the Union Human Resources Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ had announced in April that CBSE will be reducing the curriculum for the next year’s academic calendar for all the classes to make up for the lost time caused due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown asserting that the curriculum will be curtailed in proportion to the lost time.

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The Board grants several exemptions to children with special needs in accordance with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Ac, 2016. “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, as stated by Hindustan Times.

“In addition to extra time, scribe or reader, computer or laptop (without internet), from this year, we had also allowed the use of basic calculators for candidates registered under the CWSN category,” the board official added.

The total number of students under Children With Special Needs (CWSN) categories including visually impaired, dyslexics, muscular dystrophy, locomotor impairment, dwarfism, and others, are 6,844 for class 10 and 3,718 for class 12. While the Class 12 exams will be conducted across the country, the Class 10 exams are only pending in North East Delhi, where they could not be held due to the law and order situation in the wake of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Educational institutions across the country have been closed since March 16, 2020, when the Centre announced a nation-wide classroom shutdown as part of the measures to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak.

CBSE will only conduct the pending exams in 29 subjects, which are considered crucial for promotion and admission to higher educational institutions. The Board has also decided that no pending exams will be conducted in foreign countries. However, it is yet to announce an assessment scheme for the examinations that are not being conducted for foreign students and children with special needs.

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This would be the fourth time this year that the CBSE Board will be providing the psychological counselling facility. And while the board is not holding any exam outside India in countries like the Sultanate Of Oman, Singapore, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Nepal, Kuwait, and the USA; the tele-counselling service will continue there.

The Board claims that the helpline will have two features:- Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) and live counselling. Students can avail of the toll-free facility at 1800-11-8004. “While general queries will be answered by tele-operators, 73 counselors and principals will be available for live psychological counselling in India. Although the board will not hold exams in foreign schools, 21 volunteer principals and counselors will however remain available for students outside India,” CBSE said in an official statement.

“The widespread COVID-19 has severely impacted lives and systems across the world. It has prompted the board to provide help for the mental well-being of students and parents amidst cancellation of exams, disruption of regular schooling, and compulsory lockdown,” the official statement added.

The board will continue to provide the IVRS facility as it has the inherent advantages of accessing pre-recorded information anytime, anywhere, and even multiple times. The students or parents can get information on board exams including tips for better preparation, managing exam anxiety and time, contact details of CBSE offices, FAQs. Additionally, the Board will also provide FAQs on exams during coronavirus, COVID-19 daily protocol, learn from home in COVID-19 tips among others.

The Board had earlier started the 23rd CBSE annual pre-exam psychological counselling from February 1 this year. It provided pre, during, and post-board exam counselling, however, since the exams are being re-conducted, the facility has also been revived. The board further provided psychological counselling to the students stranded in hostels of affiliated schools from April 1 to April 14 to mitigate students’ problems and ensure their mental well-being in times of uncertainty. “A dedicated additional free of cost CBSE helpline for students and general masses was also pressed into service during the Lockdown period primarily to create awareness and deal with the coronavirus pandemic,” CBSE claims.

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“Class 10 and 12 students, who have to appear in the pending board exams but have moved to different states or districts during the COVID-19 lockdown when schools were closed, will be able to appear for the exams at their present places of stay. They will not be required to travel back,” the HRD Minister said. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will announce the modalities of registration for such requests, he added.

Officials said that the decision has been taken in view of the long distances that some students would have had to undertake and the quarantine measures that school authorities would have been forced to make. HRD ministry alone runs 661 residential Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas mostly in the rural areas and would have had to make some quarantine arrangements for their students to take the exams.

“Keeping in view the problem of the candidates who have shifted to other districts than the district of their examination centre, the CBSE has decided to shift their examination centres to their present districts. A notification will be issued by the CBSE in this regard in June. Such candidates are informed that they should remain in touch with their schools,” CBSE Secretary Anurag Tripathi said in a statement, as reported by Hindustan Times.

Earlier, the CBSE had earlier expanded its list of examination centres from 3,000 to 13,000 to allow students a wider choice of venues, and also to ensure social distancing and minimize travel. 29 pending papers of the CBSE board examinations have now been rescheduled to be held in the first two weeks of July. While the Class 12 exams will be conducted across the country, the Class 10th exams are only pending in North East Delhi, where they could not be held due to the law and order situation in the wake of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

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