Jharkhand postpones Class 10, 12 board exam

September 8th, 2009 PATNA - Girls have outperformed boys in both the Class 10 and Class 12 level examinations conducted by the madrassas (Islamic seminaries) in Bihar, officials said Tuesday. "Like the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination results, girls left the boys behind in the madrassa examinations this year," said Bihar Minority Welfare Minister Sahid Ali Khan, who declared the results of the Madrassa Education Board.

August 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is likely to announce on Friday that from the coming academic year (2010-11), Class X board exams will become optional in all CBSE-run schools. The board will make a formal announcement once the blueprint of the new system to replace the board exams is frozen.

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July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for Human Resource and Development, D Purandeswari, on Monday informed the Lok Sabha that Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has proposed to make the Class X board exams optional and to replace it with an internal assessment, which would adopt a similar pattern of questions to those in the board exam. Purandeswari also said that to ensure that quality of education is maintained, CBSE would ask schools to maintain course of study of Class IX and X as per the Board's scheme of studies and follow prescribed textbooks.

July 3rd, 2009 QUETTA - Answer sheets of the high school exam conducted by the Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education were found here being sold as scrap, a media report said. The result of the examinations, held in April, are yet to be announced, Geo news reported.

June 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday came out with a proposal to have a single board in the country to make the 10th board examination optional and make the admission process smooth. Introducing a 100-day plan, HRD minister said the single board at the all-India level will replace various boards in the country and will hold a uniform examination for all students, which will be similar to the pattern of combined law entrances organised by law institutions.

June 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal mulls over the idea of doing away with the traumatic Class 10 board exams, students, educators and parents gave mixed reactions. They are not sure whether the move would relieve stress or add pressure to Class 12 board exams.

June 3rd, 2009 RANCHI - Sanjit Mahto, an 18-year-old who works as cook here, has topped the Class 12 examination (arts stream) conducted by the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC). Mahto scored 379 out of 500 in the exam, the result of which was declared Tuesday.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unlike the countrywide trend of girls outperforming boys, in Delhi and the neighbouring areas, boys have outshone girls in the class 12 Indian School Certificate (ISC) board exams. In the class 10 exam, however, girls have done better than boys.

May 9th, 2009 RANCHI - Students in Jharkhand performed poorly in the 2009 secondary school examination with only a 77.82 percent pass rate, compared to 86.99 in 2008, according to the results announced Saturday. A total of 355,393 students appeared in the examination of which 276,588 cleared it.

March 7th, 2009 JAMSHEDPUR - The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) senior leader L.K. Advani kicked off his election campaign in Jharkhand Friday.

February 26th, 2009 RANCHI - Jharkhand Governor Syed Sibte Razi Wednesday recommended the removal of the state public service commission's head and one of its members for their alleged corrupt practices, an official said. 'The advisory committee of the governor has recommended to the president of India the removal of Dileep Prasad, chairman of JPSC (Jharkhand Public Service Commission) and Gopal Prasad Singh, member of the commission,' said P.K.

February 26th, 2009 RANCHI - Twelve blind students are appearing in the ongoing class 10 board examination, an official said here Wednesday. 'This year we have given permission to 12 blind students to appear in the class 10 examination.

February 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Students appearing for the class 10 mathematics examination in Haryana were taken aback Tuesday when they were given a semester I question paper instead of the semester II paper they were expecting. Students at various centres of the Haryana School Education Board were given the wrong question paper, a board official said.

February 24th, 2009 RANCHI - A Maoist rebel cooling his heels in Chatra jail of Jharkhand has written the ongoing secondary school examinations, a police officer said Monday. A self-styled 'area commander' of outlawed group Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), Kuldeep Ganju desired to take the 2009 Class 10 examination conducted by the Jharkhand Academic Council.