New Delhi: The central authorities on Tuesday (June 1) determined to cancel the CBSE Class 12 board exams amid the persevering with COVID-19 pandemic throughout the nation.
Soon after, the CISCE board additionally introduced the cancellation of Class 12 board exams.
The bulletins got here after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level assembly on the topic.
PM Modi stated the well being and security of scholars are of utmost significance, and there can be no compromise on this side.
This isn’t the primary time CBSE needed to cancel board examinations. Last 12 months too, CBSE needed to cancel the Class 10 and 12 board exams that had been scheduled from July 1 to July 15, 2020.
The board got here up with a system to evaluate the scholars based mostly on scores of the earlier three examinations.
Following the footsteps of CBSE, CISCE additionally cancelled the ICSE tenth Board Exams 2020 and ISC twelfth Board Exams 2020.
This 12 months, varied state boards additionally needed to cancel or postpone board exams for Class 10 and 12.
Rajasthan authorities in April introduced the postponement of Class 10, 12 board examinations.
Similar choices had been taken by different boards together with Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and different state boards.