ODISHA TO CONDUCT MATRIC EXAM FROM APRIL 29-MAY 6 IN OFFLINE MODE
Bureau,Odishabarta
Bhubaneswar: Keeping in view the improvement of the coronavirus situation across Odisha, the State Government on Friday announced to conduct the annual Matriculation (Class 10) Examination-2022 from April 29 to May 6 in offline mode. This was announced by Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra through a video message where he said the Matric Summative Assessment-II will be held on offline mode.
Stating that it is mandatory for all students to appear in the examination, the Chief Secretary said the evaluation of the Board of Secondary Examination will be done by three methods. As many as 6.5 lakh students are expected to appear in the annual examination. It has been decided that students will appear in the Summative Assessment-II in their own respective schools while teachers from other schools will be engaged as invigilators.
The Chief Secretary said the decision to conduct the offline examination was taken after discussions with all stakeholders, including students and parents. Mohapatra said the State Government has come up with several measures to provide relief to students keeping in view the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of the children by coming up with the alternative assessment system.
However, if the conduct of the examination is not feasible in own school, then provision will be made to ensure that the students appear in the exam in a nearby school. School teachers from other schools will be deployed during the examinations.
Keeping in view the Covid situation prevailing for the past two years, the BSE has decided to adopt three methods for awarding marks to the students. Two of those are alternative methods of assessment while another is a new scheme of assessment.
Under the first method, the evaluation will be done on the basis of scores achieved in Summative Assessment-I, Internal Assessment while the marks to be obtained in Summative Assessment-II will only be considered in another method. The third method of evaluation will be done giving 20 per cent weightage to Internal Assessment, 30 per cent to Summative Assessment-I and 50 per cent to Summative Assessment-II.
The highest scores obtained by a student in any of the above three methods will be considered as the final marks.
#agencies
