In a major development, the CBSE Board 10th and 12th Exam 2020 dates for pending exams expected to be announced soon. According to update, the CBSE Board along with HRD Ministry will review the situation and decide the date of the pending CBSE Board Exam 2020.
Earlier, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal confirmed in a live webinar, the CBSE will announce the dates of the remaining exams soon.
The minister did not provide a specific release date for the CBSE 10th and 12th Exam Date sheet 2020.
The board will notify the revised date of the pending paper on cbse.ninc.in.
The board is also expected to begin evaluating the answer sheets for the 10th and 12th Classes which have been completed so far.
Meanwhile, CBSE has also issued important guidelines to teachers and evaluators participating in the examination of CBSE Board 2020 exams. The board will spend about 3 weeks to complete the examination of the answer sheet.
Although the evaluation of the completed papers will be completed by the end of May, CBSE has not yet conducted the CBSE 12th Exam 2020 of 28 key papers for all Indian students and the 10th class examination for Northeast Delhi students. The CBSE is expected to notify students at least 10 days before the exam begins.
In a major development, Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) has announced that the students can apply for KCET 2020.
The online application form will be available from May 8 to May 18, 2020 at the official website. This last and final chance of application has been given on the request of many students and parents.
The officials will also be re-opening the online application form correction facility from May 20 to May 22, 2020.
Registered candidates will be able to login and change/modify the information that they had earlier submitted in the application form as per their eligibility.
The examination has been postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the authorities have given another chance to those students who failed to register for the entrance examination before.
About KCET 2020 KCET is conducted as an offline entrance examination for admissions into the B.Tech courses offered by the participating institutes of the state.
In the wake of COVID-19 outbreak, the Council of Architecture has announced their decision to postpone the second test of NATA 2020. The exam was scheduled to be held on May 31. Earlier, the authorities had also postponed the NATA 2020 first test due to COVID-19.
The new exam dates and revised exam schedule for both the tests of NATA 2020 will be notified by the authorities soon.
In a notification, the authorities also said that they are also considering re-opening the registrations for both the tests for a brief period before the new exam dates to facilitate candidates to apply for registration and correction.
NATA application form for the second test was available till May 4 and the last date of fee payment was May 8.
Providing relief to students, Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) will open the links for students to apply for scrutiny of their 12th class board exams from May 8th, 2020.
According to reports, students who want to get their paper scrutinised again can visit official website, biharboardonline.bihar.gov.in.
The report also stated that the scrutiny of each paper will attract an amount of Rs. 70. Students who think their marks are less than what they had expected in one or more subjects can take advantage of this facility to get the papers scrutinised.
Bihar Board had declared the 12th exam result amidst the lockdown on March 24th, 2020.
The exams were conducted from February 3rd to February 13th, 2020.
The students had scored a pass percentage of 80.44% this year which is a slight improvement compared to 2019 when the pass percentage was 79.7%. The result for all the streams including Arts, Commerce, Science, and Vocational were released on the same day.
Over 12 lakh candidates had appeared for the examination of which more than 5 lakh candidates were girls.
In a major development, Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced that the JEE Advanced Exam will be conducted on August 23, 2020.
The exam will be conducted for students who clear JEE Main examinations.
It was also decided to hold the JEE (Advanced) 2020 for the first time in the US also.
Earlier during a webinar with students, Union MHRD minister announced the exam dates of JEE Main and NEET. Meanwhile, the JEE Main exam will be conducted from July 18-23, National Entrance Eligibility Test (NEET) 2020 will be conducted on July 26.
In a meeting of IIT Joint Admission Board (JAB) it was decided that Indian Institute of Delhi (IIT-D) will conduct the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Advanced) for 2020 for admissions in all the 23 IITs on May 17, 2020.
All the entrance exams were postponed due the imposition of lockdown to curb Coronavirus epidemic in the country.
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, administering the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for 15 lakh candidates is the most challenging exam management exercise for the Union government.
The HRD Ministry has asked NTA to double the number of test centres to maintain social distancing during the exam.
Following government directions, the NTA is now planning to seat two candidates two metres apart, which, in other words, means it will need roughly 6,000 test centres.
Till last year, two candidates were usually seated at a distance of one metre.
Originally scheduled on May 3, NEET will now be conducted on July 26 due to the lockdown in the country.
NTA usually prefers to make Kendriya Vidyalayas, CBSE-affiliated schools, engineering colleges and state government colleges (in that order of preference) as NEET test centres.
Unlike NEET, the NTA does not have to drastically increase the number of test centres for JEE (Main), which will be held from July 18 to 23. JEE (Main), which is the single-window test for admission to NITs, is held online and in many shifts over several days.
As per reports, CBSE is expected to announce 10th and 12th Exam dates very soon. The board along with HRD Ministry is reviewing the situation to decide on the date for holding pending CBSE Board Exam 2020.
The Union Minister didn’t provide any specific date but said that students can expect it in a couple of days. This puts the tentative timeline for declaration of CBSE Board Exam 2020 Exam Dates on 7th and 8th May 2020.
The revised dates for pending papers will also be notified on the official website i.e. cbse.nic.in.
The board is expected to start the evaluation of answer sheets for 10th and 12th Class Exams which have been completed so far. In this direction, CBSE has issued important guidelines to the teachers and evaluators who are involved in the checking of CBSE Board Exam 2020 answer sheets recently.
Although the board has officially not released any date for start of the evaluation process, sources close to the board suggest that the preparations would be complete by 15th May.
Once it starts, experts are estimating that the board will take around 3 weeks’ time to complete the checking of answer sheets.
While the evaluation work for the papers which are already completed would get over by May-end, CBSE is yet to conduct CBSE 12th Exam 2020 for 28 key papers for all-India students along with the 10th Class exam for students from north-east Delhi.
In a major development, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is set to launch free online teacher training programs. The new program will help teachers to understand how they can gear up their teaching methods.
The CBSE teacher training program will be totally free and teachers won’t have to pay any fee. The teachers will get e-certificates after completing these online courses.
The notification said “It is clear that this pandemic has utterly disrupted an education system that many asserts was already losing its relevance.”
“Each Online Training session will be for one-hour duration; there will be no participation fee; e-certificate shall be issued to the participants” said the official CBSE notification.
The online teacher training classes will comprise of several sessions one session will be one-hour long.
Taking five sessions will be considered as a single day of teacher training class.
Around 1200 online sessions are planned by the CoEs in May 2020.
CBSE teachers can check out the detailed training schedule for May 2020 for all the CoEs through the official notification linked below.
In a major development, Gujarat State Board has released question bank for national entrance exams like JEE or NEET, or state entrance exam GUJCET. The board has been released question bank for four subjects – Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Mathematics.
There are separate question banks for Gujarati medium students and English medium students.
The question bank is available on the Gujarat Board website.
Earlier, Gujarat Board had released the GUJCET admit card and had scheduled the exam on March 31. However, the exam was postponed due to the lockdown announced due to the coronavirus crisis.
The board holds the GUJCET exam for Groups A, B, and AB. The exam is held for admission to degree/ diploma programmes in Engineering and Pharmacy. The syllabus for the examination is in accordance with the NCERT curriculum prescribed for Higher Secondary classes. There are 40 questions from each subject – Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Biology. Each question carries one mark.
Meanwhile, revised dates for JEE Main and NEET UG exams were announced two days ago. As per the new schedule, the postponed JEE Main exam will be held from July 18-23, and NEET UG exam will be held on July 26. The dates for JEE Advanced exam has been pushed back to August.
In the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak, the nationwide lockdown in India has been extended till May 17. The Ministry of Home Affairs extended the lockdown for two weeks while allowing different sets of relaxations in red, orange and green zones. The new guidelines aim at allowing India to exit from lockdown in a staggered manner while reopening the economy.
The government has announced that all educational institutes in the state, including schools, colleges, universities and coaching centres, will remain closed till May 17, 2020 due to the further extension of the nationwide lockdown. Many entrance exams were postponed or cancelled due to the epidemic.
Elets Technomedia and digitalLEARNING Magazine organized a webinar on “International Boards Quandary in COVID 19 crisis”, with eminent speakers from schools. The speakers presented their views of the lockdown issues and potential solutions for the crisis.
Mukesh Sharma, Chairman, Prometheus School, Noida, said “We need to think about cyber security and student and teacher ratio in online classes. In online classes we have figured it out for every 10 students, we need one teacher. Learning resources, which are available in schools, cannot be given in homes. Assessment is another issue which we need to work it out.
He also said to introduce blockchain technology as these are uncertain times. We must focus, are children learning good and are we engaging children in sessions, he added.
Collaboration is the need of the hour and teacher training must be our priority. A lot of children are missing on education and we must ensure that things must come back to normal soon, he added.
Dr Oli Tooher Hancock, Head of School, The International School of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, said “The situation is very unprecedented. The assessment is a bigger challenge for all of us. Teacher training is also a bigger issue. Half of the students will be in schools and half will be learning from home. We need to focus on relevant and meaningful teaching as home has turned classroom for students. We must develop future leaders.”
Over online learning, she said schools have to adopt hybrid learning and use technology for teaching. Children are most affected due to the lockdown and needed support in this crisis, she added.
Ian Davies, Head of School, Garodia International Centre for Learning, Mumbai, said “Communication has become much more important. We must be making more legitimate contact in the community. We need to provide the human touch in these difficult times. We can take the opportunity to make education better in this crisis.”
He also said we must improve our education standards with the help of technology. Technology can be a supplement but not a replacement he added.
Surabhi Goel, CEO, Aditya Birla Education Trust Schools, Mumbai, said “We have three challenges- When do we start, who do we bring in and safety measures. The teaching aspect is not worrying but the transaction can be an issue. Parents are not in a hurry to send their children back to schools. It’s a great opportunity for teachers to use technology.”
She said there is anxiety within the parents over the safety of their children when the schools will be re-opened. Managing parents’ expectations will be another challenge for schools. Children’s safety is our priority and has to sanitize the entire premises before commencing the classes.
Dr Geoffrey Fisher, Head of School, B D Somani International School, Mumbai, said “Authentication of assessments is a huge challenge for International board. The training of teachers to deliver is a huge challenge. Blended learning will be huge in the coming days. We have to provide a guarantee to parents over the safety of children. We need to introduce block chain technology in schools.”
He also said the world has learned lessons from the COVID crisis and teachers need to find new ways to engage children.
Assessments will be a huge challenge as every board has its own way of grading students, which can an issue for students, he added.
Dr. Jayshree Periwal, Chairperson, Jayshree Periwal International School, Jaipur said” Our entire curriculum in digitalized and everybody is not comfortable with it. Challenges will lead to opportunities. We are not only focusing on academics but life skills. We are trying to bridge the gap between virtual and online classes.”
Over online classes, she said not all students are comfortable with virtual classes. All students don’t have a proper digital infrastructure in their homes to take classes. There is a behavioral change witnessed within the students in this lockdown, she said.
Children must make use of the time to learn new things, she added.
Pratima Sinha, CEO, DSR Educational Society, Hyderabad said ”We have started new lesson plan. Grooming parents and students to take online classes is also important. Safety and health, human touch, and communication is the need of the hour. Preparing logistics will also be important as social distancing is the main issue. Teachers are coming up with new ideas to keep students busy. We need to plan out everything before moving forward.”
She also said financial management is a huge challenge and we need to find solutions. Homeschooling may become a reality in the future with huge flexibility. We need to work on the curriculum of students, she said.
Randy Stevenson, Head of the Academy, Corvuss American Academy, Mumbai said “Many students are looking for a transition. The focus is on academics but we need the change our mid-set. We need to talk to children and prepare them for such things. In such a pandemic, health children must be our priority. The screen time for children has increased which needs to be taken care of.”
He also said schools must adopt blended learning and curriculum must be changed to support the children in this crisis.
