The Kashmir Pulse

SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education on Thursday rescheduled the annual regular exams of Class 11th in soft zone areas and examinations of Class 10th, 11th and 12th in hard zone areas.

According to the news agency KNO, BOSE Director Academics in a notification said that it received directions from the Joint Chief Electoral Officer of J&K (Jammu) regarding the schedule for the conduct of Lok Sabha Election 2024, requesting therein to ensure that no date of examination clashes with the dates of Election with respect to the UT of J&K.

JKBOSE said that the National Testing Agency is conducting the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) 2024, Session 2 from April 4 to 15. It said that the JKBOSE has received scores of representations from the students for rescheduling of Board exams in this regard.

“In view of the issue, all the concerned are informed that the upcoming examination of Class 11th annual regular 2024 in Soft Zone and Annual Regular 2024 examinations of classes 10th, 11th, and 12th in Hard Zone Areas have been rescheduled and that said examination shall be now held on rescheduled dates in two sessions, that is morning and evening shift,” it reads.

JKSCERT issues revised date sheet for 8th standard

The Jammu and Kashmir State Council of Educational Research and Training (JKSCERT) on Thursday issued a revised date sheet for the Middle Standard Examination for soft and hard zones of session 2023-24.

According to the news agency KNO, the examination in both soft and hard zones will commence on April 2 and will culminate on April 15. JKSCERT said that the timing has been preponed from 11:00 am to 10:00 am for the commencement of the Middle Standard Examination 2023-24.

It suggested the students take their examination at the already notified examination centres on the above dates well in time. The candidates were further advised to carry admit cards on all days of the examination for verification.

“The Complex Heads shall ensure that all the SOPs for the conduct of examination are followed in letter and spirit,” JKSCERT said.

SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir State Council of Educational Research and Training (JKSCERT) on Saturday rescheduled the annual examination dates for the 8th standard.

According to the news agency KNO, JKSCERT said that the exams in the soft zones will commence from March 13 and will culminate on April 2.

Similarly, the JKSCERT said that the exams in hard zones for the 8th standard will commence from March 26 and will culminate on April 10 respectively.

Earlier, the exam was supposed to be held from March 5.

SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir State Council for Educational Research and Training (JKSCERT) is likely to announce results of 8th standard on April 10.

A top official informed the news agency KNO that the results have been prepared and all the processes have been completed. “We have completed all the requisite processes and most likely, the results will be announced by April 10,” the official said.

It also said that the academics will be started immediately in a week’s time after the announcement of the results.

Pertinently, the examinations of the 8th standard commenced on February 27 and culminated on March 10.

Meanwhile, the official also said that the Annual Transfer Drive (ATD) for teaching staff of the School Education Department will take some time to start. “The ATD will take some time to start and when everything will set, we will open the online links accordingly,” the official said.

On asking about the disparity of working hours in schools in and out of Srinagar Municipal limits, the official said, "We will decide soon the new timing for the schools falling under Srinagar Municipal limits."

It is pertinent to mention that the timing for government and private schools in Srinagar Municipal limits usually used to be from 9 AM to 3 PM in April while outside the Municipal limits, it used to be 10 AM to 4 PM.

However, the government recently announced that the working hours in schools in Srinagar Municipal limits would be from 9 AM to 2 PM while the timing for schools outside Municipal limits remained unchanged, resulting in one hour of disparity.

SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir State Council of Educational Research and Training (JK-SCERT) on Wednesday ordered for completion of registration and issuance of admit cards of 8th standard students to conduct the Term-End Examination.

The official orders of SCERT issued by the Joint Director of Kashmir Division said this in the backdrop of conducting of Class 8th Term-End Examination session in March 2023.

The news agency KNO also reported that the SCERT in a communique to District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) Principals said, “Registration of all students should be done by or before January 31, 2023.”

The SCERT also ordered that the computerized admit cards should be issued to all students by February 15, 2023.

“There should be an inspection of all complex heads, examination centers and ensure the arrangements and the strong room regarding the safety of confidential and allied material of examination,” it reads, adding, “There should be meetings with the complex head for smooth conduct of the examination.”

It also said that the action taken report may be shared with the council for its onward submission to the Director SCERT.