Odisha Minister Asks For Changes In Plus II Exam Schedule; Know Why

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OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: School & Mass Education Minister Samir Dash on Tuesday directed the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), Odisha, to make changes in the exam schedule of Plus II Science following objections over less gap between two consecutive exams, which will be held in offline mode from April 28.

A total of 3.20 lakh students from 1,586 colleges would appear for the exam in Arts, Science, Commerce and Vocational stream at 1,148 centres across the state. “CCTVs will be installed in every exam centre, he added.

The exams will be held in a single shift from 9 am in view of the possible heatwave conditions.

The practical exams will be conducted internally by the respective higher secondary schools under the supervision of their own teachers, it said while terming it as a sympathetic step amid the COVID pandemic.

Weightage of 20 per cent in both theory and practical examinations will be given from the performance of the students in quarter-end examinations, which were conducted by the schools internally. For this purpose, their performance in the best two internal tests out of three shall be taken into account, the CHSE said.

The merit of the students will be assessed in two separate schemes in a paper – performance of the candidates based on their performance only in annual HSE and 80 per cent weightage on the basis of performance in annual HS and 20 per cent weightage from the performance in quarter-end examinations, it added.

 

OB Bureau

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