Bhubaneswar: After a lot of dithering over the conduct of council-level Plus II first year examination this year, the government Thursday decided not to hold the exam reportedly due to insufficient time left for the students to prepare for the test.
The government has taken this decision at a high-level meeting held at the Secretariat here in the presence of school and mass education (S&ME) minister Debi Prasad Mishra, higher education minister Pradeep Panigrahy, Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi, development commissioner R Balakrisshnan and other senior government officials.
“Examining the outcomes of officer-level meetings held earlier and considering the fact that students have less time left to prepare themselves for the examination, we have decided not to go for holding council-level Plus II first year examination this year,” Mishra told reporters after the meeting ended.
The state government, after having wider consultations on several aspects, would fix the modality and process to conduct the council-level examination next year, he added.
One of the reasons why the government took the decision is shifting of administrative power from higher education department to S&ME department this year, sources said.
The decision has come as a huge relief for the Plus II first year students as they were in utter confusion as to whether the examination would be conducted or not.
The first year examination will be conducted at college levels as was being held earlier, sources added.
Earlier, the government had decided that the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) would conduct the Plus II first year examination-2017. The council has proposed the government to adopt the exam patterns of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Nagaland.
The council has adopted Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) like curriculum from the ongoing academic year (2016-17). The council has also prepared a roadmap to conduct the examination in the optical mark recognition (OMR) pattern and also submitted its proposal to the government this year.
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