The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) will conduct Class 12 board exams for Science and General streams from July 1.
Gujarat Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama on Tuesday confirmed that Gujarat Secondary & Higher Secondary Education Board will conduct Class 12 exams as per the existing system.
The Minister said that the dates of the exams will be announced soon.
“Part-1 of Science stream will have multiple choice questions and the Part 2 will comprise descriptive writing,” Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said.
The Education Minister made the announcement on Twitter after a high-level meeting with ministers from the Central Government on pending board and entrance exams.
The decision to grant mass promotion to regular Class 10 (SSC) students of the Gujarat Secondary Education Board was taken by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in the larger interest of pupils and save them from getting infected with coronavirus, said a government release.
A decision regarding "repeaters", students who had failed in earlier attempts and were slated to again appear for exams this year, will be taken after assessing the situation once Covid-19 cases drop, said the release.
It was Chief Minister Vijay Rupani who took up the decision keeping in mind the current situation in the state. This year, nearly 12 lakh students of Class 10 were expected to appear for the exams.
Amid the talks on conducting the exams in the country, the major entrance tests for undergraduate Engineering (JEE Main) and medicine (NEET UG 2021) will be conducted, it was reported.
The application form for JEE Main 2021 exam date and NEET 2021 will be released soon on the official site of NTA - nta.ac.in.
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