The Primary and Secondary Education Department is also mulling doing away with the rule that students cannot be held back until the end of class 9 if they fail.
Following in the footsteps of Tamil Nadu, the Karnataka Department of Primary and Secondary Education is set to introduce board exams for students in Class 7. Speaking to the media on Friday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Suresh Kumar said that the exams would be introduced from the current academic year. “We are introducing public exam (board exam) for class 7 students from this year. A technical committee will be set up to look into the feasibility of this,” Suresh Kumar said. The department is also mulling doing away with the rule that students cannot be held back till the end of class 9 if they fail. “We need to ensure that the students are learning what is being taught and not being passed without learning anything. The quality of education is getting affected because of this rule and we will likely remove it,” Suresh Kumar said. Speaking to TNM, a senior official with the Primary and Secondary Education Department said that so far, the state government has decided that if board exams are introduced for students in class 7, then SSLC would have the responsibility of preparing the question papers and answer keys and the papers would be corrected at the district level. “Sometimes, teachers just end up giving more marks to students in the final exams to show that they are scoring good marks even though they are not. To put an end to such practices, we are thinking of introducing the board exam so that students and teachers take education seriously. If we are not able to introduce the exam this year, we will do it for the upcoming academic year,” the senior official said. Education is a part of the concurrent list and earlier this year, the state government amended Section 30(1) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, which states that children should not be required to face any board exam till the completion of elementary education. This paved the way for the government to initially think about introducing board exams for both class 5 and 8. However, officials have decided to go back to the previous practice of conducting board exams for class 7.
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