Raipur: The Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education (CGBSE) will hold the Class XII exams from June 1 despite the COVID-19 upsurge.
The exams, however, will be held in a different mode. This time the students will need to collect the question papers for specified centres, take them home, write the answers and submit those within five days, officials informed.
The board has decided to conduct the tests in this pattern in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and the safety of over 2.86 lakh students across the state, CGBSE secretary V K Goyal said in an order issued late on Saturday evening.
According to the order, students of Class XII will have five days between June 1 and 5 to collect the question papers and blank answer sheets from the specified centres.
“They can collect the question papers on any date between June 1 and 5. The students would have to submit the answer copies at their respective centres within five days from the date of collection of the question papers,” the order was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
The CGBSE announced the results of Class X exams, based on an internal assessment of the students after no final examinations were held in view of the pandemic, on May 19. In March, the Chhattisgarh government shut all schools in the state and said it will promote students of all classes, except Classes X and XII, without holding their exams.
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