Class 12 CBSE Board Exams 2021: Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Asks for Suggestions, Here’s What Students Said

Class 12 CBSE board exams 2021 will be discussed at a high-level meeting with States and Union Territories. Education ministers, education secretaries and chairpersons of state examination boards and stakeholders to discuss the proposals for the conduct of exams for class 12 and entrance examinations for professional courses. The meeting will be chaired by Rajnath Singh in the presence of Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', union minister for education, Smriti Zubin Irani, union minister for women and child and Prakash Javadekar, union minister information and broadcasting.

Earlier today, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank asked students and other stakeholders for their views on the conduct of class 12 CBSE board exams 2021. “All the State Government Education Ministers and Secretaries have been requested to attend this meeting and to share their valuable views with regards to upcoming examinations. This virtual meeting will take place at 11.30 AM on 23rd May 2021. Friends, I need "YOUR" valuable suggestions too. You can send them on my Twitter handle,” said the minister.

The minister has received over 27,000 responses so far, and a majority of them asking for the class 12 CBSE board exams 2021 to be cancelled rather than postponed. “Conducting CBSE board now will definitely give some grave results to us, to our family, and to our country. Thus, I humbly request the Government to cancel these exams. Also, please take the final decision ASAP because until our boards are done we can't focus on JEE,” says Utkarsh.

Conducting the examinations online is one suggestion that has been made by several students. In a poll conducted by Dataquest, 28 percent of the students opted for online examinations. However, the implementation of online examinations at such short notice may not be possible. Both offline and online mode is not feasible in a country like India, as we are not a developed and rich country like USA, Russia, and others that we can ensure each and every child has required gadgets for online exams,” says another student.

A majority of the students are of the view that class 12 CBSE board exams 2021 should be cancelled and students must be graded on the basis on internal assessment. “The need of the hour is to let the colleges or schools promote the students based on internal assessment marks, Or conduct the Online exams for it,” adds a student. Students may also poll on this story to make their opinion known.