Mumbai: The national level Indian Olympic exam has been postponed.
Close to 1 lakh from the smartest school students take the exam done by Homi Bhabha Center for science education.
The four exams – two each at 9 and January 16 – has been postponed and the decision about the other two on January 23 will be made in a few days, after taking the Covid situation stock.
Two Olympic exams on January 9, Indian Olympic qualifications in mathematics (taken by students of class X, XI and XII) and Indian Olympic qualifications in junior science (taken by ninth and tenth class students) have been postponed.
Similarly, Indian Olympic qualifications in Indian Olympic physics and qualifications in the biology exam is scheduled to be held on January 16, has also been postponed now.
The decision was taken “considering the deteriorating situation of Covid-19 pandemic throughout the country, and the consequences of closing education institutions and restrictions were announced by the central government and different state governments”.
Members of the Professor Olympic Team Aniket Sule told Tii, “around 10 states, schools have been closed and they cannot open them even to do the test.
In some other states, there are weekend wednesday that have been put in place.
We also received a letter from The students whose buildings were sealed January will be announced after January 10.
The National Olympic program in the subject of science which peaked at the 2022 international Olympics was disturbed by Pandemic Covid-19.
In departing from the usual three-stage procedures to choose the team to represent India at the International Olympics that have been followed in the past, the selection procedure for the cycle of 2021-2022 has been condensed to the two-stage process, which is similar to the last year, which includes the Indian Olympic qualification and selection camp-orientation.
The objective type test conducted in November and the subjective exam in January has been combined into a test like last year.
Again, last year, all international Olympics were carried out online and the Olympic body would make a decision on this year’s format in March.