‘Pass All Students From Classes 1 to 8,’ HRD Minister Advises CBSE
The HRD minister said all students of classes 9 to 12 will be promoted on the basis of evaluations conducted so far.
Union Human Resource Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Wednesday, 1 April, said he had advised the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to promote all students from Classes 1 to 8 to the next year.
Dr Nishank further added that students of Classes 9 and 11 will be promoted to next the class based on the school-based assessments, including projects, periodic tests, term exams, which have been conducted so far.
He also added that students who are not promoted “can appear in school-based test/s, online or offline”.
Earlier, states like Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh had already declared that all students from class I-XII will be passed, there were some states that had not declared the same.
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