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Students relived as CBSE announces to release date sheet for board exams
On March 18, CBSE had announced that board exams of Classes 10 and 12 could not be conducted due to the Covid-19 outbreak
Facing uncertainty for almost two months after Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) postponed the board exams, students breathed a sigh of relief as the board announced to release the date sheet on Monday.
On March 18, CBSE had announced that board exams of Classes 10 and 12 could not be conducted due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
A week after the Centre announced that the remaining exams will be held between July 1 to 15, Union minister of human resource development (MHRD) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank took to Twitter on Saturday evening to announce that CBSE would release the date sheet on Monday.
The pending exams of Class 12 include business studies, geography, Hindi (elective and core), home science, sociology, computer science (old and new), information practice (old and new), information technology and biotechnology.
Sristhi Verma, a commerce student at BCM Senior Secondary School, Basant Avenue, Dugri, welcomed the decision of conducting the remaining exams in July.
“Although every student wants to be done with the exams so that he or she can go out with friends, on a trip or even starting looking for colleges, but the situation is different this time. Saving lives is more important than conducting examinations. I’m hopeful that situation will normalise by the time we appear for our pending exams,” she said, adding that computer science and business are her pending papers.
Astha Munro, a humanities student at BCM School, said that she just focuses on the future by searching for good colleges to pursue fashion designing.
“Though I’m left with only one exam, it is still a burden. I have already revised all the lessons many times and I’m glad that the board decided to release the date sheet. It was high time,” she said, sharing that the board had announced to postpone the papers just one day before her Punjabi exam was scheduled.
Sukhpreet Kaur, another commerce student of the same school, said that she had planned to learn to play the harmonium after the exams.
“I wanted to learn something new after completing the board exams, but this lockdown ruined all my plans. I could not go out for music lessons and the only thing I have been doing these days is cooking. After appearing for my remaining two exams, I won’t have much time as I will start preparing for the entrance exams for admission to universities. This announcement has ended the uncertainty. Finally, the burden of exams will be lifted from our shoulders,” she said.
Paramjeet Kaur, principal BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School and city coordinator of CBSE, said, “So far, we have not received any directions on how the exams will be conducted or what precautionary measures will be taken. We are only certain that the remaining exams will be held from July 1 to 15.”
