The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE) has announced that the Examination for classes 9 and 11 will be conducted before April 24, 2021. The examination is announced to be conducted in Educational Institutions in offline mode.
An official circular was issued in which Geraldina L Mendes, the secretary of GBSHSE stated that in order to provide infrastructure and manpower to the Goa Board Examination 2021 for classes 10 and 12 which is scheduled to be conducted from April 26, the exams for classes 9 and 11 should be finished before April 24, 2021.
Earlier in November 2020, the Goa government had permitted to reopen the schools for students of classes 10 and 12 which were kept shut for over eight months since March 2020 because of the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. Classes for other sections are being conducted in online mode.
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The circular stated, “In view of the prevailing pandemic situation and availability of a limited number of instructional and working days, the schools are hereby requested to conduct the examination, that is theory and practical for classes ninth and eleventh for the academic year 2020-21 by calling students to the schools.”
The schools were given liberty to conduct the examinations to classes 9 and 11 according to their convenience. The circular also stated that the schools which have already conducted the first midterm and first term exams need not conduct it again.
The liberty to set the papers of the first and second term examinations with full weightage or with 50 per cent weightage and then converting it to full weightage is also provided to the schools. According to the coverage of the portion, the schools were permitted to set their own papers.
It was previously announced that 30 per cent of the syllabus for the state board is reduced for the present academic year. A total of 51,790 cases of coronavirus have been reported in Goa and 746 deaths due to the infection.
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