After months of dilly-dallying over whether the all-important 12th Standard CBSE board exams will be conducted this year, the government of India has finally issued a notice saying that the examinations this year are cancelled. This ended months of anxiety, stress and uncertainty among both the students and the parents.
The government will be announcing the criteria for college admissions soon, as the 12th standard marks are usually the benchmark for getting admission to various colleges and also for eligibility for competitive entrance examinations. Engineering and medical entrance exams have a 50% cut off in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics to be considered eligible for admission for these courses.
Earlier this year the government had already cancelled the board exams for the other important milestone in an Indian child’s education, the 10th standard board exam. The CBSE board places a lot of importance on the 10th standard exams and it is considered to be the first time that a child will compete on a national level in terms of academics.
The CBSE board had decided that a mixture of previous years results, performance in online tests and other results from pre boards and midterms etc will be used to award the student his or her 10th standard marks. A similar system is said to be being formulated for the 12th standard students as well. If this system is extended for another year, we could have the first-ever batch of students who have started college without the horrors of writing 2 board exams.
Following the decision by the CBSE board, the CISE board has also announced that they are also cancelling the ICSE and ISC examinations for the academic year 2021. This leaves only the state boards left to take a call on their examinations which we believe will also be cancelled. We haven’t received any official notification from International boards about the O, A and AS level examinations for the year 2021.
The general emotion amongst the students across the country is one of relief and happiness. They are among the very few generations who have managed to escape the clutches of the most overrated and pointless examinations in the world. The results from the exam tend to be something that the student will carry for the rest of his or her life but is also extremely skewed towards those who have a predisposition towards science and maths.
We talked to a few students from across the country and they all were very excited by the announcement and felt that this was something they earned after going through all the crap that the universe has been throwing at them for the past couple of years. There is still a little apprehension on how the admission to colleges will be decided but the students are taking it one day at a time.

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