A portion of the students who feel they have not been properly taught have turned to Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor for help. Students demanded alternatives to traditional board exams, including online exams, internal assessments, or the cancellation of board exams.
The students said they were not taught how to prepare for board exams and that was unfair to the online group of students. They are told to prepare directly without any preparation for the offline board exam.
Demanding the cancellation of board exams for state boards as well as NIOS, the student further wrote, “The government is not paying attention, we are struggling… We need a decision just be taken.
She said the teachers had problems with the internet and it made them lose touch with writing. She also said they didn’t have the necessary books or notes.
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She asked Shashi Tharoor to intervene and said many students were deeply stressed. Many students agreed with her and raised their concerns with Tharoor.
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Another student wrote, “Our education minister of Maharashtra says online exams aren’t possible because a lot of students in Maharashtra don’t have a proper phone with good internet connectivity, then how will she explain 2 years of online lecture?”
Tharoor Replying to students and said, “I sympathise with the problem but what’s the solution? If exams are not held won’t the students lose a year?”
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CBSE and CISCE have released the dates for their term 2 exams. The CBSE term 2 exams will be held from April 26, while ICSE and ISC semester 2 exams will begin on April 25. The class 10, 12 exams of various state boards- Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan are being conducted in March.
