BHUBANESWAR: After from the CBSE’s footsteps, the Odisha Administration on Friday decided to cancel this year’s Class XII board Exam conducted by the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE).
The authorities said pupils will be assessed with well defined goal standards evoking mixed response amongst pupils and educationists.
“Giving importance to pupils existence more than assessment, chief minister Naveen Patnaik ordered conclusion of this exam, also referred to as Plus II evaluation,” a statement issued from the chief minister’s office said.
“Security of life is extreme priority and what else comes alongside.
If lives are spared, there could be chances and cultures will proceed,” the statement mentioned Naveen as stating.
The authorities said pupils will be assessed in a time-bound way in consultation with field specialists.
Those not pleased with the test can appear within a test to be held from the CHSE as soon as the situation improves.
School and mass instruction minister Samir Ranjan Dash stated Odisha would love to observe that the test standards to be embraced with the CBSE and the CISCE before coming out with its own.
“Because the Supreme Court has requested these two test bodies to set their test parameters prior to it within a couple of weeks, Odisha might love to evaluate how they go about doing it.
CHSE will develop its own standards to ensure our pupils aren’t at a disadvantage when competing at the federal level,” Dash said.
Approximately 3.5 lakh students in science, arts, trade and vocational flows were scheduled to look for its Class XII board examination.
Pabitra Mahala, president of the association of educators, stated the Centre and also Odisha authorities have to have come out with an alternate means of conducting the exam.
“Vaccinating that the examinees and their guardians on priority might happen to be one way before conducting the exam.
This might have been achieved much ahead of time.
The pupils will keep on facing difficulties later in life since they will not show up in the Plus II evaluation,” Mahala stated.
Pritish Acharya, a professor in the Regional Institute of Education, stated Odisha shouldn’t have adopted the CBSE.
“Pupils in CBSE affiliated colleges have mostly appeared because of their Course XI evaluation, which may turn into the cornerstone of the Class XII outcomes.
But, CHSE affiliated associations couldn’t hold the last examination in Class XI.
Teachers haven’t seen pupils .
How do they evaluate them” Acharya requested.
