Shubhangi Shifa
Ranchi, Feb 8: The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) is mulling over holding matriculation and intermediate exams at home centres. The JAC is working on a report about the challenges they may experience taking the exam at home centres which will be submitted to the Jharkhand’s education department. The education department will then make the final decision on whether or not exams should be organised at home centres for classes 10 and 12.
The JAC has sought reports on difficulties that may arise while holding examinations at home centres. The officials held a video conferencing with all the District Education Officers (DEOs) recently. The DEOs have been asked to provide the number of schools and examinees available in each block. They have been asked to provide information about the necessary resources available in the schools and the distance of the bank from the school.
Around 700 new centres have been set up in the state for matriculation and inter examination. This will increase the number of centres to 3,400. So far, the examination centres have been determined at the block level for the matriculation examination and the sub-division level for the inter examination.
The JAC will prepare a report based on the information provided by all DEOs. Later, it will send the report to the School Education and Literacy Department and the final decision on holding the examination at the home centres will be taken.
Class 10 and 12 examinations are likely to be held in the last week of March. The exam date is likely to be announced by JAC this week. When contacted to ask about a date for the meeting to decide on the exam schedule, the newly appointed JAC chairman Dr Anil Kumar Mahto said, “Till the model question papers are released and other preparations made, a decision over the schedule of exams cannot be made.”
Notably, model question papers are to be issued for the examination to be held in the last week of March. The JAC has engaged 61 teachers to prepare the model question papers. In both matriculation and intermediate exams, questions will be asked from 75 percent of the syllabus only as the Department of School Education and Literacy has already cut the syllabus by 25 percent.
