KOLKATA: Class-XII students in some CBSE schools came to their respective campuses to write their Term-I board exams that started on Tuesday, coinciding with schools reopening. This is the first time since 2019 that a board exam is being held.
South Point High School, Sushila Birla Girls’ School and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy were among the schools where the exam was conducted. Students reported by 10am for the 11am exam. Observers reached the schools before students came in and took charge.
At the appointed hour, encrypted question papers reached the school heads digitally which were downloaded and printed within a given time format. OMR sheets printed on Monday itself under the Board’s supervision, were distributed to students at 11am. A 20-minute reading time was given and students wrote their exams from 11.30am, completing them by 1pm. After the papers were collected, evaluation started on the spot from 2pm under the supervision of observers. The evaluation was done by the teachers of the school following an answer key provided by the Board.
“We completed everything by 5pm. The sheets were sent to the Board after uploading evaluation results. We found it very thrilling as this is the first time the exam was conducted and evaluation done almost immediately. The Board will scrutinise the evaluation,” said director of LSA, Meena Kak. At her school, 55 kids wrote the entrepreneurship development paper.
At South Point, 51 children wrote the exam. Of them, two had cold and cough and were made to sit in isolation room. “We completed uploading of marks on time. The real challenge will be on Saturday when 705 students write their Bengali paper,” said school spokesperson Krishna Damani.
