Haryana introduces board exams for classes 5 and 8 to improve quality of learning – Education News

The Haryana government has recently amended the Haryana Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2011 to introduce boards for classes 5 & 8 . The government has taken this decision to improve the overall educational standards in the state.

Ved Prakash Yadav, vice-chairman, Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH), says, “The central government amended the Right to Education Act (RTE) 2009 on January 11, 2019, which stated that regular examinations would be held every year at the end of classes V and VIII. In accordance with the amendment in central act, Haryana government has also amended the Haryana Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2011 to introduce boards for classes 5 & 8 I across all recognized private and government schools in the state. The government has taken this decision to improve academic standards in the state. The Haryana board was already conducting board exams for classes V and VIII even before RTE 2009 came into existence

The authorities realised, in the absence of board exams for classes V and VIII, there wasn’t any academic check at the primary and middle-level classes that led to a decline in the academic standards. Even the CBSE introduced the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) in 2009 that said that both school and board conducted examinations will take place. “In school conducted examinations, the question paper came from the board but were had an internal evaluation by the school teachers. Surprisingly in the majority of schools, not a single student failed. Taking a cue from this, we decided to reintroduce board exams for a fair assessment of the student’s performance across all categories of schools,” says Yadav stressing how the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 emphasizes on Census assessment (large scale assessment) at the end of class III, V and VIII.

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