Tripura to promote more than 1.8 lakh students without exams

Agartala: The Tripura government has decided to promote nearly 1,87,744 students, studying in Classes V, VII, IX and XI without conducting any examination, keeping in mind the prevailing COVID-19 situation in the country, state education minister Ratan Lal Nath said on Thursday.

Briefing the media at the civil secretariat, Ratan Lal said, also hinted at a possible re-evaluation, in the matter pertaining to the promotion and academics, once normalcy is restored in the state.

“The study curriculum has been largely affected by the pandemic in the year 2020 and 2021. The Corona crisis has devastated the normal course of studies of lakhs for lakhs of students. In view of the whole scenario, the department has decided to promote students of the fifth and eighth standard for a time being. But, as soon as things stumble back to normalcy, an evaluation of the promoted students will surely be carried out”, Nath said.

Similarly, class IX and XI students, who could not appear for their final examination, due to a sudden surge in COVID-19 infection rate, will also be promoted to the next class.

“The students of class IX and XI could not appear for all their final exams. The exams have been suspended for the spike in COVID-19 cases. In this case, marks will be given assessing the highest score of an individual student in a specific subject. If any student is found to be lacking to meet up the 33 per cent pass marks, he will be given grace marks for promotion”, Nath further said.

According to Nath, the total number of students studying in class V stands at 51,827, while 52,659 students are studying in class VIII, 53,176 in class IX and 30,008 students are enrolled in class XI.