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Plea on board exams

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This would ease stress on students, says Parliamentary committee

NEW DELHI: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development has asked the Government to consider allowing students to appear for board examinations in their own schools with supervisors/invigilators from outside. According to the Committee, this would ease the stress on students taking board examinations.

Recommendations to this effect were made by the Committee in its report — tabled in Parliament on Tuesday — on action taken by the Government on earlier observations. In its earlier report, the Committee had said that the "current practice of holding board exams for secondary and senior secondary students at schools other than their own also generates a kind of fear psychosis amongst them." Instead, it suggested that students be allowed to appear for the board examinations in their own schools with supervisors/invigilators from outside.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), in its response, said the existing practice ensured that the examinations are conducted in an environment, which is free of unfair means. Also, the Board said it took pains to ensure that students do not have to travel long distances to appear for their examinations.

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