SSLC, Plus Two exams to continue

The SSLC, Plus Two Higher Secondary, and Vocational Higher Secondary Examinations within the State will continue in strict compliance with COVID-19 protocols.

The examinations are being carried out as per tips containing COVID-19 security protocols issued to schooling officers and chief superintendents, an announcement from the Director of General Education right here on Monday mentioned.

Arrangements have been made for college students to seem for the examinations sustaining bodily distancing. Directive have been problem to be certain that educating and non-teaching employees on the examination centres wore triple layer masks and college students additionally wore such masks to the utmost extent doable.

Strict scanning

Students can be allowed inside faculty compounds solely after their physique temperature is scanned utilizing infra-red thermometers and soaps and sanitisers have been made out there at each examination centre.

Steps are in place to specifically obtain reply scripts of scholars who’re COVID-19 optimistic and despatched these to valuation camps. Schools have made preparations to seat individually college students who’re COVID-19 optimistic, these in quarantine, and people with excessive physique temperatures.

Principals have been requested to make journey preparations for youngsters to attain the examination centres. Halls can be sanitised after every examination.

Monitoring groups

Monitoring groups of schooling officers fashioned at State, income district, and schooling district-levels are reviewing the rules being applied in every faculty and supply needed suggestions and help to the chief superintendents. Besides this, presence of well being employees, voluntary organisations, parent-teacher associations, and college administration committees has been ensured in every examination centre, the assertion mentioned.

Four SSLC papers stay to be carried out, as additionally Plus Two examinations scheduled for 4 days. The SSLC examinations will conclude on April 29, whereas the Plus Two and Vocational Higher Secondary examinations will conclude on April 26.

There has been demand from many quarters to postpone the SSLC and Plus Two examinations within the wake of the second wave of COVID-19 transmission within the State.

Students’ suggestions

However, senior officers of the General Education Department advised The Puucho that the suggestions from college students and fogeys was that they wished the examinations to be accomplished.

Moreover, there have been sensible issues concerned within the postponement for the reason that examinations have been additionally being held within the Gulf area and Lakshadweep. Unlike Central or different State boards the place examinations have been but to start, examinations in Kerala have been already underneath manner, they identified.