One-time opportunity for students who failed in Class IX, XI: CBSE
In view of the unprecedented circumstances of coronavirus, the Union HRD Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has advised all the CBSE schools to provide an opportunity to all the students, who have failed in Class 9 and 11 to take online/offline tests.
HRD Minister has also asked the schools to provide adequate time to the students for the preparations of re-tests. In a notification, CBSE stated that the whole country is facing a challenging time due to coronavirus. It is an unprecedented situation and children are confined at home, it said, adding that their schools are closed.
CBSE, in view of the requests of the parents and students, as a one-time measure in an extraordinary situation has decided that all the failed students of Class 9 and 11 will be provided an opportunity to appear in a school-based test again.
The opportunity will be extended to students irrespective of whether their examinations have been completed and the exam results have been released or their exams have been completed, the notification said.
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CBSE also stated that the one-time opportunity is being extended only in the current year in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The benefit is a one-time measure and will not be extended in the future, it added.
-PTC News
