Covid effect? States see increase in students skipping Class 10, 12 Board exams this year | Education News,The Indian Express
The Indian Express analysed examination attendance data of 17 state Boards over the last few years to find that the jump in the non-attendance of students this year — over the pre-pandemic year of 2019 — is more pronounced for the Class 10 exams.
Education Boards of at least 10 states — Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal — have reported a high number of students who registered but didn’t turn up for their Class 10 and 12 Board exams held earlier this year.
The Indian Express analysed examination attendance data of 17 state Boards over the last few years to find that the jump in the non-attendance of students this year — over the pre-pandemic year of 2019 — is more pronounced for the Class 10 exams.
For instance, on May 7, Samir Ranjan Das, the Education Minister of Odisha, got a report that said 43,489 students, out of the 5.71 lakh students who had registered for the Class 10 state Board examination, did not turn up to write it. This was unprecedented, and the state government immediately directed district education officers to submit a school-wise analysis of the “missing students”.
Attributing the spurt in absentees to the Covid-19 pandemic, Das told The Indian Express, “The students missed their classroom lectures and lost the confidence to appear for the final exams. The students were in Class 8 before the pandemic happened, and missed classes for nearly two years. Many could not join online classes. It is a pan-India issue.”
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