The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced on Wednesday that the Term-2 board examinations for classes 10 and 12 will be held in the offline mode beginning April 26.

Last year’s Term 1 board exams were held, but the results have yet to be released.

The board exams will be held in offline mode at the allotted exam centres, according to CBSE Examination Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj’s notification. The board has already uploaded sample papers to its website. According to Bhardwaj, the board will soon release a detailed date sheet on the official website – cbse.gov.in.

The announcement of the exam date, according to most schools, will allow students to prepare with renewed focus and may encourage children to return to school for offline classes.

Sudha Acharya, principal of ITL Public School in Dwarka and chairperson of the National Progressive School Conference (NPSC), which has over 120 Delhi schools as members, said the school was aware that the exams could be held sometime in April. According to Acharya, the CBSE has already rationed 30 percent of the syllabus in light of last year’s pandemic, and students have enough time to prepare for the exams.

“We were aware that the Term 2 exam might commence from the last week of April. At present, we have started with the revision of 2nd term syllabus and are conducting a chapter-wise mock test as per the sample papers provided by CBSE. Simultaneously, we are completing practicals and internal assessments for Term 2,” said Acharya. The school has scheduled pre-board exams for the first week of March. “The exams will allow students to self-assess their readiness. Then, we will again conduct support classes and doubt clearing classes,” said Acharya.

The closure of schools due to the pandemic for the past two years, according to AK Jha, principal of the Government Co-ed Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Rohini, has created a learning gap, and schools will focus on overcoming the issues that students are facing. “Students will be given more preparation time. Teachers will also have some time to fill in the gaps, as schools have been closed for over 530 days, resulting in a significant learning gap,” Jha said.

According to Tanya Joshi, principal of the Indian School, the preparation time was more than enough once students began attending in-person classes. “Hybrid mode of learning must come to an end now so that schooling can resume as usual,” Joshi said.

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