INTER EXAMS TO TAKE PLACE AFTER MID JUNE
Intermediate
examinations (XI/XII) across Pakistan would be held after June 15, Education
Minister of Pakistan Shafqat Mehmood announced Tuesday.
Mehmood
said currently only A2 (A Level second year) examinations are being held across
the country, but several people are voicing their demands to be awarded school
assessed grades.
"If
examinations do not take place, then no one will study — and that is why the
(O/A Level) exams — that have been postponed — will be conducted in October and
November," he said.
Last
month, as Pakistan saw an uptick in COVID-19 cases, Mehmood and Special
Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan had announced that
as per the suggestion of the NCOC, all board exams have been postponed till
June 15.
"Exams
of 9, 10, 11 and 12, which were supposed to begin from the end of May, have
been delayed further," the minister said said at the time. "No board
exams will be held till mid-June (June 15)."
Mehmood
said further that another meeting of the NCOC will decide in the 3rd week of
May whether these exams will be postponed further or not.
"So
if exams take place after June 15, they may continue in July and even
August," Mehmood explained.
Speaking
about Cambridge exams, the Education Minister said that O Level exams will now
be held in the October and November cycle and the same will be the case for A
and AS Level exams.
"Those
students who wish to seek admission in Pakistani universities will be able to
do so until January as the government will take the universities on board in
this regard," the minister said.
He,
however, said students of A2 must appear in the examination right now, as not
appearing would lead to a wasted year.
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