CBSE Class 12 Exams Postponed, Class 10 Exams Cancelled

CBSE Class 12 Exams Postponed, Class 10 Exams Cancelled

      The government on Wednesday postponed Class 12 exams and cancelled Class 10 exams by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), a decision that will impact nearly 15 lakh students across the country at a time when authorities are trying to rein in a worrying spike in Covid-19 infections.

Impact on Class 12 students: it means the board exams that were to be held from May 4 to June 14 will happen later, after the situation eases. CBSE officials will carry out a stock-taking exercise on June 1. Details will be given subsequently and a “notice of at least 15 days will be given before the start of the examinations”, according to the government.

Impact on Class 10 students :  There will be no CBSE board exams. They stand cancelled, though there is more to it.The government said the results of Class 10 “will be prepared on the basis of an objective criterion to be developed by the Board”. This “criterion”, as mentioned in a CBSE press note, was not immediately known. “A candidate who is not satisfied with the marks allocated to him/her on this basis will be given an opportunity to sit in an exam as and when the conditions are conducive to hold the exams,” the note said.