Maharashtra Class 12 (HSC) and Class 10 (SSC) board exams 2021-22 will be held offline from March 4 and March 15, respectively, school education minister Varsha Gaikwad announced on social media. Class 10 board exams will be held from March 15 to April 18 while Class 12 board exams 2022 will be conducted from March 4 to April 7, 2022.
Further, the oral assessments, practicals, and grades would be conducted by the board for HSC, SSC exams from February 14 to March 3, 2022, and February 25 to March 14, 2022. The date sheet for the board exam has been released after taking into consideration the feedbacks as well as consultations from various stakeholders with regards to conducting the board exam.
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Due to Covid-19, the curriculum was earlier cut by 25%. Keeping this in mind, questions in the examination will be only from the reduced syllabus. The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will release a detailed exam timetable, tweeted minister Varsha Gaikwad on Thursday.
In 2021, class 10 and 12 board exams across several school education boards had to be scrapped due to rising Covid-19 cases. Results for the class 10 batch was instead based on students’ performance in classes 9 and 10 combined whereas the class 12 students were assessed based on their performance in classes 10, 11 and 12.
(With inputs from agencies)
