The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday extended the deadline for schools to prepare the Class 12th results to July 25. Earlier, the deadline was July 22.
This means, now both the Class 10th and 12th Board results, would be delayed as the time for declaration of Class 10th results by early this week has already passed.
Without indicating that there could be delay in declaration of the Board results, the CBSE said that along with University Grants Commission (UGC), it is looking into the interest of all the students and hence, the university regulator would be synchronising admission schedule based on the result of these students as it was done by the UGC in the last academic session.
CBSE examination controller Sanyam Bhardwaj noted that the teachers involved in the result preparation process are under stress and getting panicky.
“With the last date for finalising the results approaching fast, the teachers are panicky and committing mistakes and sending requests to CBSE to rectify these. CBSE is well aware about the constraints and problems faced by the schools and teachers,” Bhardwaj said in an official order.
“Accordingly, CBSE has decided to extend the last date from July 22 to 25. Schools may continue to work towards compiling the result to avoid any last minute rush. In case, any school is left to complete the moderation of marks, the result of such schools will be declared separately,” he added.
With the board exams being cancelled in view of the aggressive second wave of Covid-19, schools have been tasked with tabulation of results using a separate alternative assessment policy announced by the CBSE for the two classes.
The CBSE, however, did not clarify whether extending the deadline for schools will cause a delay in declaration of results which are due to be declared latest by July 31.
The CBSE also announced that it will conduct exams for private category of candidates between August 16 and September 15 as per the policy framed by the Supreme Court and the conduct of examinations of this category has been necessitated because the students are enrolled directly with the Board for which no evaluation can be conducted as compared to school or open based system.
The delay would also be due to certain logistical problems as some of the States have cited problems arising out of floods and heavy rains.