Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Friday, 8 May, said that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct the remaining exams for classes 10 and 12 between 1 to 15 July, 2020. According to the board, the schedule of these pending exams will be declared in a couple of days, although no exact date for the same has been mentioned so far.
The decision was announced by Pokhriyal on Twitter, who also said that exams for subjects that could not be conducted in north-east Delhi, will also be conducted within the same period. He clarified that if a student in North-East Delhi has already appeared for a paper that was rescheduled for those who could not, he or she won’t have to appear for it again.
The announcement comes close on the heels of a live on Tuesday, 5 May, during which Pokhriyal had said that dates for CBSE exams would soon be declared. However, the HRD Ministry’s decision to go ahead with board exams comes after Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who’s also the state’s education minister, urged the central government to employ internal assessment and cancel pending exams.
List of Pending CBSE Exams
On 1 April, CBSE had said that it will conduct examinations for only main subjects that will be required for promotion and may be crucial for admissions in higher educational institutions. The board had said that it would not conduct any remaining exam for Class 10 across India, as examinations for important subjects listed by the board had already been conducted.
Remaining Class 10 Exams in North East Delhi
However, the CBSE clarified that Class 10 board examinations in six key subjects will be held in North East Delhi, where mass-scale violence had led to exams being postponed. These are the six subjects:
- Hindi Course A
- Hindi Course B
- English Comm
- English Language and Literature
- Science
- Social Science
What About Class 12 Board Exams?
For the Class 12 Board examinations across India, the CBSE has confirmed that it will only conduct examinations in 12 subjects.
These include, Business Studies, Geography, Hindi (Elective), Hindi, Home Science, Sociology, Computer Science (Old), Computer Science (New), Information Practice (Old), Information Practice (New), Information Technology and Bio-Technology.
Class 12 CBSE Exams in North East Delhi
In North East Delhi, the CBSE will conduct the following exams for Class 12.
- English Elective - N
- English Elective -C
- English Core
- Mathematics
- Economics
- Biology
- Political Science
- History
- Physics
- Accountancy
- Chemistry
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