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Class 12 exams: India students face uncertain future amid pandemic
Just like China’s Gaokao, the national college entrance examination, India has board examinations for the 12th-grade students when they finish their final year of middle school. Since the scores of the exams have a huge influence on their admission to colleges and universities, the exams are held at the same time across the country to ensure fair opportunities for all exam takers. You can imagine that eager students must have been studying very hard to prepare for the exams. However, this year, the exams were canceled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. At first, the students were relieved from the pressure but soon they started wondering how their academic achievement would be evaluated and how colleges and universities would admit their applications. Now, students are going to be assessed by their schools which have never done such a sensitive task before. The government-controlled board of secondary education said they would come up with standard assessment criteria from all aspects so that all the students would be evaluated fairly. But can middle school teachers, who have never done such assessment for their students, make fair and viable evaluations for the college application? Will there be teachers who inflate the grades or give favor to some students?
Whichever the case might be, the 12th graders missed a lot in their final school year, including classes, classmates, events, and now the most important exams.
Read the article and think about how difficult the year was for India’s high school students.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57420647
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