KARACHI: Because the training boards have been gearing as much as begin or resume their annual examinations, Might 28, Youm-i-Takbeer, was abruptly declared a public holiday first by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-led federal authorities after which the provincial authorities of Sindh, throwing a spanner into all plans.
Board officers have been in places of work calling conferences. They have been at a loss as individuals referred to as to inquire “what now?” they usually requested them to face by for additional info. The scholars have been confused; the mother and father have been fearful. For a number of hours, there was full chaos.
The O and A stage exams are additionally underway round this time. Cambridge was fast to get themselves out of the equation by declaring that every one O and A ranges exams will happen as per the already introduced schedule.
Matric exams below the Board of Secondary Training Karachi (BSEK), which have been already delayed and double delayed attributable to postponed papers due to the heatwave, have been to renew on Tuesday. However the public vacation and recollections of the nuclear take a look at explosion in 1998 introduced up one other day’s delay.
BIEK proclaims intermediate papers will now start on June 1
The paper to happen on Tuesday can be held later now, the date for which can be introduced. In the meantime, the papers to happen on the twenty ninth would be the similar as introduced based on the schedule.
Many college associations, in the meantime, have been of the view that the general public vacation shouldn’t have an effect on exams schedules. They have been of the view that such pointless delays and postponements affected the intermediate exams and likewise the sensible exams. They urged to deal with examinations with the significance and seriousness that they deserved.
In the meantime, the chairman of the Board of Intermediate Training Karachi (BIEK), Prof Nasim Ahmed Memon, had already rescheduled intermediate exams attributable to some logistical points because it was not straightforward to conduct each matric and inter exams on the similar centres.
BIEK exams, due to this fact, are to begin from June 1, as an alternative of the initially deliberate date of Might 28.
Revealed in Daybreak, Might twenty eighth, 2024