Shillong, June 23: There is good news for students who missed the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) and Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) exams conducted by the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBoSE) in April this year due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Around 74 candidates missed the SSLC examination of which 34 missed the exam completely. For the HSSLC examination, 92 candidates missed at least one subject, but 15 missed the examination entirely.
Over 67,000 students had appeared for the SSLC examination this year.
Meghalaya Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui on Wednesday informed that the MBoSE is likely to conduct the SSLC and HSSLC examinations for students who were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic next month. However, this will be the last chance for the candidates.
The matter was discussed at a meeting chaired by the Education Minister along with officials from the education department and MBoSE on Wednesday. “We have decided to conduct the examinations for students who missed the (regular) exams due to contact with COVID-19 positive case or are from containment zones probably after the second week of July,” Rymbui told reporters.
He said the examinations will also be conducted after due consultation with the health department and looking into the situation in the state. The minister added that the meeting was also convened after the last date for submission of application by such students ended on June 21.
However, no exams will be conducted for the remaining papers of Class XII computer science, statistics, western music and vocational studies.
Rymbui said the marking will be done on the basis of computation, and MBOSE will soon come up with the system of marking.
The result of the Class XII exams will be declared before July 31 while for SSLC, the minister said the department will try to expedite the results as early as possible. “Due to this pandemic and lockdowns, there are also issues and difficulties faced by the evaluators,” he said.
According to him, the board will decide on different issues including question papers and take necessary action to ensure students should not suffer and are able to appear their examinations.
