AHMEDABAD: After weighing many choices like shortening examinations and running them into multiple-choice question (MCQ) structure, the Vijay Rupani government has chosen to run Class XII board examinations for the entire 3 hours at the normal format. The examinations must be held in July 1, will be run with measures set up for Covid-19, for example social bookmarking principles. Consequently, more classrooms will be required compared to previous year, once the examinations were held at 16,000 classrooms. While the primary minister has taught that the state education department which exam centres ought to be near students’ homes, the need from schools and parents to maintain examination centers at schools that the pupils are registered in, hasn’t yet been considered. The state authorities on Tuesday said chose to run the examinations despite all the prevailing Covid-19 scenario in light of the larger interest of their 6.83 lakh students in the nation. The decision was taken at a high level assembly chaired by chief minister Rupani. In light of the recent Covid scenario in the country after long deliberations, the state administration declared on Tuesday at a press statement. Providing details, Gujarat schooling ministry Bhupendrasinh Chudasama reported that roughly 6,83,000 pupils will accept the Class XII examinations. Of these,140,000 pupils will probably likely be of the science flow and 543,000 will function as overall flow, it stated. In the match, CM Rupani gave clear directions to the instruction department to rigorously follow Covid-19 protocols while still conducting the assessments. The education ministry said that the exam will be conducted based on the standard system. For the Science flow, Section I of this examination, worth 50 marks would be multiple-choice questions (MCQ) with the optical mark reader (OMR) method. Part II is going to be descriptive responses, value 50 marks. The tests will be long. For General flow pupils, the newspapers are going to be from the format that is descriptive and is worth 100 marks. “The education department also has been given directions to make certain that pupils keep social distancing, apply masks, and stick to ‘Corona Transition Control Modes’ that simplifies using sanitizers, fever scanners,” Chudasama stated. “It was decided to raise the amount of examination centers in the nation,” the announcement said. For those assessments of the two flows — a max of 20 pupils will be permitted in 1 classroom. Every exam facility will be equipped with CCTV cameras. It was also determined that for pupils unable to carry the forthcoming exams because of Covid-19 or for some inevitable reasons, new examinations using a fresh time-table and new examination question papers would be ran following 25 days. The tests for repeater pupils of Class X will also be run at the similar fashion, the education ministry included.
Gujarat: Even More classrooms Required for Examinations
