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  • CISCE declares Class 10, 12 results

    By ANI

    NEW DELHI: Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) declared the results of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE Class 10) and Indian School Certificate (ISC Class 12) on Sunday.

    According to the notice, the students can check their results by visiting CISCE’s website, http://cisce.org or http://results.cisce.org

    The Class 10 or ICSE examinations started on February 27 and ended on March 29, 2023.

    Class 12 or ISC examination commenced on February 13, and the last examination date was March 31.

    This year around 2.5 lakh students appeared for the CISCE examination for Class 10, 12.

    Earlier on Friday, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class announced the results of class 12 final examinations with an overall passing percentage of 87.33. This year, girls outshone boys by 6.01 per cent with 90.68 per cent.

    NEW DELHI: Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) declared the results of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE Class 10) and Indian School Certificate (ISC Class 12) on Sunday.

    According to the notice, the students can check their results by visiting CISCE’s website, http://cisce.org or http://results.cisce.org

    The Class 10 or ICSE examinations started on February 27 and ended on March 29, 2023.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Class 12 or ISC examination commenced on February 13, and the last examination date was March 31.

    This year around 2.5 lakh students appeared for the CISCE examination for Class 10, 12.

    Earlier on Friday, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class announced the results of class 12 final examinations with an overall passing percentage of 87.33. This year, girls outshone boys by 6.01 per cent with 90.68 per cent.

  • COVID: ICSE cancels class 10 board exams, withdraws option for students to appear later

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The ICSE class 10 board exams have been cancelled in view of the worsening COVID-19 situation and the option for students to appear later has been withdrawn, board secretary Gerry Arathoon said on Tuesday.

    Last week, the board had postponed both class 10 and 12 exams.

    The Council for The Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) had announced that class 10 students will get an option to either write the exams later or get evaluated on the basis of an alternative criteria.

    “Given the present worsening situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, the CICSE has decided to cancel the class 10 examination.

    The option for students announced earlier, stands withdrawn.

    The safety and wellbeing of our students and teaching faculty is of topmost priority and paramount importance,” said Arathoon, Secretary and Chief Executive of the CISCE.

    “We are committed to devise a fair and unbiased criterion for declaring class 10 results. The criterion as well as the date of declaration fo results will be announced later,” he said.

  • Amid rising COVID-19 cases, over one lakh students urge boards to cancel exams

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, over one lakh students of classes 10 and 12 have signed petitions urging the government to either cancel board exams scheduled to be held in May or conduct them in online mode.

    The hashtag “cancelboardexams2021” has been trending on Twitter for the past two days.

    However, both the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) have said that adequate safety arrangements are being made for students and all COVID-19 guidelines will be followed during the exams.

    “The situation in India is getting worse day by day. When there were only a few cases in the country, they cancelled the remaining board exams and now when the cases are at a peak they are planning to open schools. We urge the education minister to look into this matter and cancel all examinations to be held this year as students are already under a lot of stress,” a petition on Change.org said.

    Divya Garg, a class 10 student, on Twitter urged the government to postpone the exams for at least a month and then take a further review based on the number of cases.

    “The students have already faced a lot of problems till now in this pandemic. Classes were held online so the exams should also be held online or students should be promoted via internal assessment marks,” another user tweeted.

    Usually, practical exams are conducted in January and written exams begin in February and conclude in March.

    However, the exams were delayed and are scheduled to be held in May-June in view of the pandemic.

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    “Adequate arrangements are being made to ensure the students are safe and all COVID protocols are followed. The number of exam centres has been increased by 40-50 per cent to ensure social distancing. The staff at exam centres is being sensitised to ensure all guidelines are followed,” a senior CBSE official said.

    The board had last week announced that if any student fails to appear for ongoing practical exams after the student or any family member testing positive, the schools will conduct re-tests for them at an appropriate time.

    The official, however, did not comment on whether the same relaxation will be given to students in theory exams as well.

    Similarly, Gerry Arathoon, the chief executive and secretary at CISCE, said the schedule for exams “will remain the same”.

    Schools across the country were closed in March last year to contain the spread of COVID-19 ahead of a nationwide lockdown.

    Several states started reopening the schools partially from October last year, but physical classes are again being suspended in view of the exponential rise in coronavirus cases.

    Last year, the board exams had to be postponed mid-way in March.

    They were later cancelled and the results were announced on the basis of an alternative assessment scheme.

    Both the CBSE and CISCE had decided not to come up with a merit list last year.

    India registered a record single-day spike of 1,26,789 new COVID-19 cases, pushing its infection tally to 1,29,28,574, while the number of active cases too went upwards to breach the nine lakh-mark again, the Union Health Ministry’s data updated on Thursday showed.