CBSE 12th private students against exams; claim delay will affect college admissions

While CBSE used an alternative mode of assessment to evaluate regular students’ CBSE 12^th results 2021, private students have been asked to appear for offline exams.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will be conducting offline exams for private students of Class 12 starting August 16 until September 15. The announcement has left several students angry as well as upset as they have been demanding the cancellation of their CBSE Class 12 exams. While the board used an alternative mode of assessment to evaluate regular students’ CBSE 12^th results 2021, private students have been asked to appear for offline exams. Students also claim that the private CBSE 12^th exam dates are clashing with the engineering and medical college admission exams, i.e. JEE and NEET. According to the announcement made by the Board, CBSE 12^th results of regular students will be announced by July 31 or August first week. Students believe that this will put them at a disadvantageous front while applying for college admissions.

While justifying its decision to conduct offline exams, CBSE said, “In the case of regular students, schools have conducted a unit test, mid-term and pre-board examination and thus the performance records of these students were available. However, in the case of private candidates, no records based on which their assessment could be done.”