ES Reporter

ITANAGAR, May 23: Minister for Education, Er Taba Tedir attended the  video conference organized by the Ministry of Education, GoI for Education Ministers of all the states to discuss strategy for conducting class 12 exams.
While attending the meeting, Taba Tedir suggested that since Arunachal Pradesh is a vast state with scattered population and uneven network connectivity, the best suitable way to conduct examination would be through offline mode.
Duration of examination may be reduced to 60 minutes for minor subjects, 90 minutes for major subjects with multiple choice questions. (These major & minor to be decided by CBSE). These examination to be conducted in two shifts morning (major paper) evening (minor paper), shared the Minister in the meeting.
He also added that, the conduct of examination should be of short duration may be for three days  and  declaration of results may be done within 15 days. Exam should also be conducted for students those who will not be able to appear due to containment zone or lockdown.
With regard to entrance exams, Minister suggested for increasing the numbers of exam centres so as to avoid crowding and reduce travel time. District administrations, facilities of APSSB, APPSC may be used to conduct exams in one phase for entrance examination.
Further , Tedir also suggested increasing the Exam centre for NEET as at present there are only two centres, (Naharlagun & Itanagar). Thus few more districts such such Tezu, Pasighat, Bomdila, Namsai etc may be taken into consideration to conduct NEET exams.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
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