Annual exams for entire year? Schedule mentions tests from March 2018 to 2019

Agra | Saturday | 20th October, 2018

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Agra: According to the annual exam schedule issued by the basic education department for the session 2018-19, the tests are to continue throughout an entire year. Singh had issued the letter mentioning exam schedules to assistant directors and basic shiksha adhikaris (BSA) of all districts on October 17. The order issued by Ruby Singh, secretary of the Basic Shiksha Parishad, mentions that the annual exams will be conducted from March 16, 2018 to March 23, 2019.The letter was widely circulated in social media, mostly among teachers, drawing criticism from them about official carelessness. According to it, the half-yearly examinations are to be held from October 26 to November 6, 2018.The order also mentions that evaluation process for the annual exams would start from March 24, 2019, a day after the exams end, and will be completed in the next three days. Some of them included the wrong date of birth of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and erroneous details about poet Tulsidas..