The AAP government in Delhi has decided to seek help of external agencies to conduct special mathematics classes before commencement of Board exams to improve the exam results, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday. The Delhi cabinet gave its approval to the proposed ”Maths Teaching Project” by the Directorate of Education. The job of the external agencies would be to customize the content to help students prepare for the board exam.
The external resource persons will supplement the efforts of teachers in targeted schools. The project will start in January 2020 covering approximately 30,000 students of Class 10 of Delhi government schools. Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, said a total of 342 schools have been initially shortlisted, having records of low results in Mathematics (7.02 per cent to 55 per cent) last year.
Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, said the government has analysed the results of Delhi government schools and found that students are able to score above 95 per cent in all subjects other than mathematics and science.
The results in these two subjects have gone down, with students scoring less than 76 per cent in mathematics. During 2018-19, about 1.66 lakh students from DoE appeared for the CBSE”s class X Board Exam out of which 37,073 failed in Maths, reports the PTI
“The Delhi government has decided to hold extra coaching classes in schools so that the results in the subjects that are lagging behind can be brought on par with the scoring subjects. Extra coaching classes will also be held for students who have obtained compartment or have flunked in the board examinations,” he said.
The package is proposed to be of 100 hours covering important topics to be completed before the board exams. Practice material will also be provided by the external agencies.