Due to Spike in Covid cases, Rajasthan Government postpones Class 10, 12 board exams

Source: The Indian Express

As per ANI, After CBSE, the Rajasthan government today postponed Class 10 and 12 examinations due to the current Covid-19 situation. The students of classes 8, 9, and 11 have also been promoted without examinations.

The Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) Tuesday decided to promote students of classes 6 and 7 to the successive classes without conducting the annual examinations. Given the rising number of COVID-19 cases across the country, the state board will be promoting students of classes VI and VII based on internal assessments, which will be conducted by the respective schools.

Govind Singh Dotasra, minister of school education, shared the official notice on Twitter. He tweeted, “The education department has taken a big decision for students’ ease and those studying in class VI and VII will be promoted without exams amid coronavirus outbreak.”

The Rajasthan government earlier on April 4 had announced that till April 19 schools for classes 1-9 will remain closed. Colleges across the state have also been closed down for all students except those in the final year of their degree.

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