Srinagar: Furthering the “confusion” over twin finals for class 10th and 12th being conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education, the JKBOSE has now decided to declare position holders only after the two finals for the same session are over, summer where around summer of next year.
This means though the JKBOSE will release results for exams scheduled for this month, there will be no position holders in the gazette, something which the JKBOSE plans to declare only once the results for exams scheduled for March will be out. Simply put positions for the board exams will be out by summer of 2017.
Prompted by the recent news report carried by Kashmir Observer that the JKBOSE would not declare position holders for class 10th and 12th finals as the same session exams are being held in November 2016 and March 2017, sources said the Education Minister Naeem Akhter on November 10 directed the JKBOSE authorities to either declare the results only after both the exams are over or to find out a way to declare positions by “hook or crook.”
JKBOSE officials said they were initially directed to issue a “rebuttal” of the news carried by this newspaper. But the officials are understood to have resolved that it would be unwise to contradict the news report when the JKBOSE was itself at fault. “There were also chances of backlash from media,” admitted a senior official.
Sources said some of the officials tried to persuade the minister that it would be unwise to issue another formal statement “which has no logic to stand in public and would add to the chaos.”
Given the “political pressures”, however, the JKBOSE officials finally issued their “clarification” through a Srinagar-based newspaper that positions would be announced after the twin-exams are over. JKBOSE Chairman Zahoor Ahmed Chat reportedly said: "After holding class 10th and 12th exams in November, results will be announced without declaring the position holders in both the exams. The position holders will be declared after exams are held in March."
Experts termed the latest stand of the JKBOSE as more confusing and injustice with the candidates.
A prominent academician, who is presently associated with the JKBOSE, said it has nowhere happened in the civilized world that two groups who are being given varying relaxations in exams will show same academic results.
Referring to the JKBOSE decision that students appearing in finals in November will be granted 50% percent relaxation where as there would be no relaxation for the candidates appearing in March, the academician, who is a PhD by qualification, asked: “How can half be equal to whole. This is quite illogical?”
Explaining his point, he said: “One student is going with fifty percent preparation and the second one is supposed to go with full preparation. When the level of preparation is different, the scores will obviously vary.”
He added that when the relaxation for the two groups will vary how will the “academic achievement between the two groups of candidate can be the same? “This is un-psychological, illogical and not know in the education history of the world,” he added, asking not to be identified.
The candidates on the other hand have taken a serious note of the “flickering stands” of the JKBOSE over exams. “Amid so many contradictions it seems that the board is itself not prepared to hold exams than to talk of we students who are just not prepared to face the boards,” said a student of class 12th.
The parents said JKOBOSE’s changing stands have confused everyone. “Appearing in the exams has turned like a gamble. Believe me I have asked my son to go for heads and tails to appear in November or March exams as we are unable to take a decision,” said a parent.
For the past over a month, while the students have been holding roadside protests, the civil society has equally taken a dig at the government over conduction of exams, when the students have even not completed 50% of their syllabus due to persistent agitation in Kashmir, which recently entered fifth month.
The civil society says that to “give a rosy picture of the situation in the restive Valley, the government is playing with career of our children.”
Education Minister and the JKBOSE Chairman could not be contacted for comments.
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