All Gujarat board schools to have common exams
AHMEDABAD:
All schools in Gujarat affiliated to the state board and directorate of primary
education will now have a common examination process monitored by the state
education department.
In a notification issued on Wednesday, the state government
announced some significant decisions to be implemented from next academic year
2020-21.
“All the schools that are affiliated with GSHSEB and Director,
Primary Education will follow centralized assessmentfor sessional, annual and periodic
exams across all grades from 3-12 to be conducted by GSHSEB and GCERT,” said
Vinod Rao, secretary, primary and secondary education.
The notification is part of the efforts to improve quality of
education across all 55,000 government, grant-in-ad and self- financed schools
affiliated to Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB).
It is aimed to benefit 1 crore students. The exam papers for main
subjects in primary schools will be set by Gujarat Council of Educational
Researchand Training (GCERT) while in case of secondary and higher secondary it
will be done by GSHSEB.
All state affiliated schools will have to compulsorily follow
NCERT textbooks issued through the Gujarat State Board of School Textbooks,
according to the notification.
The education committees under the district panchayats will
carry out the task of printing the exam papers and the district primary
education officers (DPEO) and the district education officers (DEO) will manage the
transport part.
“We are linking remedial with academic assessment. The idea
is to achieve grade-appropriation learning outcomes. A lot of work has been
done from the last six to eight months to introduce these new measures. The
decision has been taken getting various associations on board with us,” said
Rao.
The centralized assessment aims to track academic progress of
every student in the state.
“This will strengthen school education in Gujarat and give
our students competitive edge in national level exams like JEE, NEET etc and
help them be prepared for international assessments like (Program for
International Students Assessment) by 2024,” the notification states.
