Schoolchildren should have to take state or national-level “census” exams in Classes III, V and VIII, the draft National Education Policy has suggested, without linking performances in these tests to promotion to the next class. It was amended last year to allow state governments to fail a child in Class V or Class VIII, based on an assessment. Board examsThe draft policy says that instead of taking one board exam at the end of Class X and another after Class XII, the students should have to sit eight board exams — one after each six-month semester in Class IX, X, XI and XII. Practical portions of certain board examinations would be assessed locally,” it says. What happens if a student sits the Indian history test in the first semester of Class IX and exhausts her two mathematics tests by the second semester of Class X?

Source: The Telegraph June 01, 2019 20:56 UTC