10th, 12th Board Exams 2021: Delhi issues new guidelines for practicals, pre-boards

It has further mentioned that the pre-boards will be tentatively held for Class 10 from April 1 to April 15 and for Class 12 from March 20 to April 15, 2021.

The main objective to hold physical sessions for Classes 10 and 12 is to help students prepare for the upcoming CBSE board practical exams to be held at the school-level from March 1. Delhi government has issued certain COVID19 safety rules and guidelines to hold internal assessments, practical exams, pre-boards, and conduct project work.

Not more than 12-15 students will be allowed inside the laboratories at the same time. The Head of the school will plan the dates for holding practical classes to ensure social distance inside the laboratories and equal time for all the students to practice. This timetable will be approved by the Directorate of Education Government of NCT of Delhi.

Implementation of the bubbling effect shall be ensured where the same set of students must be grouped together for lab sessions and other project work so they minimize contact with other students. Hand sanitisation at the entry of all the laboratories will be made compulsory in all the schools.

The Delhi schools will be required to compile the marks of internal assessment before the beginning of the CBSE board examination 2021.

For Class 10th students, the projects and assignments given as winter holiday homework will be marked out of five marks in the internal assessment, worksheets will be considered as a portfolio and will carry five marks.

Only those schools which fall out of the containment zones will be allowed to reopen for CBSE practical examination 2021. They will have to submit a plan of COVID19 preparedness to the Directorate of Education Government and seek its permission to reopen. CBSE 10th exams 2021 and CBSE 12th exams 2021 are scheduled to be conducted between May 4 and June 10. The detailed scheduled is yet to be released by the Board.