Updated: June 28, 2021 at 7:50:33 pm
Karnataka Education Minister Suresh Kumar on Monday launched the schedule of Secondary School Leaving Certificate Examination or class tenth examination. The SSLC examination will final for 2 days. The first paper – Science, Mathematics and Social Science – will likely be in a single paper on July 19 and the second paper on languages on July 22.
Both the exams will likely be held between 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. Suresh Kumar mentioned, “All teachers will be vaccinated within a week to prepare for the exam.”
Meanwhile, symptomatic kids showing for SSLC examination will likely be stored in isolation in a separate room on the examination centre. “Children who have tested COVID positive and wish to write can write to a nearby center that arrangements have been made to isolate them,” he mentioned.
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Section 144 will likely be imposed at a distance of 200 meters across the examination facilities to make sure social distancing because the examination is performed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This year, SSLC exam will be conducted and the question paper will consist of multiple choice questions only. The answer sheets will have Optical Mark Reader (OMR). Each subject will carry a maximum of 40 marks. Only one question paper containing all the three main subjects of total 120 marks will be provided,” he mentioned.
In the primary paper, Maths, Science and Social Science will likely be divided into three components. The examination will likely be performed on the scheduled day from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm for 3 hours. A niche of three days will likely be supplied by the division between every examination.
“Similarly, for language examinations, three subjects from languages I, II and III will be part of a question paper carrying a total of 120 marks. Each subject will be of 40 marks. The exam pattern will be the same for all types of students,” defined the minister.
According to the minister, there will likely be no supplementary examination this 12 months. “Grades will likely be given as A, B and C on the premise of marks. We will quickly publish a mannequin query paper on our web site.”
Meanwhile, Karnataka’s second PU end result to be declared within the second week of July mentioned the training minister. “The government has decided to cancel the II PUC exam, students will be promoted with grades. When the situation is under control, examination options will be conducted for those seeking grade improvement,” Education Minister Suresh Kumar instructed reporters in Bengaluru.
Last week, the federal government launched the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for academics. The SOP made it obligatory to sanitize the examination corridor, furnishings and bogs every day by spraying disinfectant resolution earlier than and after the examination. To preserve bodily distancing, there will likely be 12 kids within the examination corridor and just one scholar at every desk. Also, the SOP ordered the scholars to not collect at any level of time.
In rural areas, preparations ought to be made to make sure that the examination facilities are made in such a manner that college students usually are not required to go to the taluk-level to look for the examination, the SOP mentioned.
Vaccination of academics, employees and officers concerned in conducting the examination in collaboration with the district administration is obligatory, the minister mentioned, including that they want to make sure that they get a single dose of vaccine earlier than the examination.
Over 8.75 lakh college students will take the SSLC examination in over 6000 facilities throughout the state and to make sure social distancing, the variety of examination facilities has been doubled from final 12 months.
Last 12 months, the Karnataka authorities had performed the SSLC examination regardless of the continued COVID-19 pandemic with opposition events and consultants expressing apprehensions in regards to the unfold of the an infection.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
