Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 23: The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday refused to cancel the conduct of offline exams of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), and other boards.
The petition to cancel the offline board exams for Class 10 and Class 12 was denied by a court led by Justice AM Khanwilkar saying, “entertaining such petitions will cause more confusion in the system. This cannot become the norm. Such petitions give false hope to students. They will be misled by such petitions.”
“Authorities are already working on finalising dates and other arrangements. If there is any problem once those are finalised then the aggrieved parties can approach the authorities,” the bench observed.
The petition requested that the CBSE and other educational boards, which have suggested offering board examinations for classes 10 and 12 in an offline format, devise alternative evaluation methods. Students from over 15 states filed a petition seeking an alternative assessment system for the upcoming board exams.
Due to the second wave of COVID-19, almost all state and central education boards, including the CBSE and the CISCE, were forced to cancel Class 10 and Class 12 final exams and use other means of evaluation last year.
CBSE has already announced the dates for class 10 and 12 term 2 exams which will be held from April 26.
CISCE is likely to conduct the ICSE Class 10 and ISC Class 12 exam in the last week of April. The detailed time table, CISCE in a statement has said, will be released shortly.
