Haryana to hold Class 12 exams in core subjects

ROHTAK: The Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) will conduct the Class 12 final exams only for main core subjects in a curtailed format. As many as 2.7 lakh students are to take the exams that have been held up due to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We will conduct the exams in a curtailed format. Each exam will be of one-and-a-half hours instead of three hours and students’ own schools will be the exam centres. The paper will have only objective and short-answer questions,” board secretary Rajiv Prasad said on Monday. A review meeting of the board is scheduled on June 1.

15-day notice to students before exams

“The board will give a 15-day notice to students for the exams. Our focus is on conducting the exams in a safe and secure environment. All exams will be conducted by following the Covid-19 guidelines,” he said.

The Haryana government will conduct board exams of main subjects, including mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, political science, English, Hindi, history, geography and accountancy. The marks of the fifth subject will be decided based on the performance in the main subjects.

On the Class 10 results, Prasad said that the state board will declare its results on the pattern of CBSE.

In HP, Class 12 board exams in June 3rd week

Shimla The Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HPBoSE) is planning to conduct the Class 12 exams in the third week of June if the Covid-19 situation improves in the state. Earlier, the exams were scheduled from April 13 to May 10 but were deferred after the English paper due to a sudden spike in the Covid-19 cases.

The Class 10 exams were cancelled, and it was decided to promote students to the next class. HPBoSE chairman Suresh Kumar Soni said: “If the Covid-19 situation improves further, we intend to issue a fresh datesheet by June 10 and exams may be started anywhere between June 15 and 20.”