Education Minister webinar today: CBSE Class 10, Class 12 schedule will be announced in advance, NEET 2021 won't cancel: Ramesh Pokhriyal | Watch

10: 57: I would like to bind up session by urging parents to do not press their students only for studies but also encourge them to letter writting, taking yoga lessons and other extra curicular activities: Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal.    

10:56: When different countries pushed their academic year by one year, we did not only save students from losing their year but also conducted massive exams like JEE and NEET     

10: 50: "There is no plan to cancel NEET 2021. We postponed NEET thrice in 2020 and gave students an opportunity to change their exam centres. We did not cancel the exam as it could have been a great loss to students and the country," the minister said.

10: 46: About date and multiple attempts of JEE exams, "We are serioulsy look into it and soon we will come upth solution.We will see if we can provide more opportunities, even four attempts" he said.   

10: 42: ‘BSE Board Exam 2021 dates will be announced much before the commencement of exam, giving students enough time to prepare for the examinations, the education minister said.

10:40 am On new exam pattern and postponement of exam, Pokhriyal said, "we have done it before and will ensure that you get enough time for preparation". 

10:32 am: "We will look into practical exam part," he said when asked students could not conduct practical exams as they were not able to go to schools.   

10:31 am: ''You are brand ambassador of new education policy (NEP), whicch provides option and opportunity both" 

10: 29: Global community is praising our New Education Policy and want to join India as it overhauls education pattern in the country.  

10:26 am:  During these difficult times, the National Test Abhyas app developed by the NTA helped students to prepare for JEE Main 2020 and NEET 2020, said Education Minister said. 

10:23 am: We have executed one of the biggest exercises of it's kind in the form of JEE and NEET exams during Covid 19 

10: 20 am: congratulate CBSE officials for successfully conducting board and competitive exams in 2020 amid the ongoing pandemic 

10:18 am: Union Education Minister asks young generation to ‘read to lead’ the country 

10:15 am: Young generation should revive letter writing, says Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. 

The wait is almost over for the students seeking clarity about the schedule of CBSE Class 10, Class 12 exams and competitive exams, such as NEET 2021 and JEE 2021 examinations. Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will go live on Twitter to take questions of all stakeholders, including students, parents and teachers, today i.e. December 10 at 10 am.
“Dear students, I will be addressing your concerns related to upcoming competitive and board Exams at 10 AM today on my Twitter/FB pages. Looking forward to interacting with you all. #EducationMinisterGoesLive,” Union Education Minister tweeted this morning (Thursday) at 8.39 am.  

The Central Board of Education (CBSE) has not announced dates of Class 10 and Class 12 exams as of yet, leaving students guessing about the same. The dates are usually announced between September and December, however, this year the schools remained closed due to pandemic and the board had been mulling the right time to conduct exams.  

Earlier, Nishank had asked all stakeholders to raise their grievances and inputs on Twitter about CBSE Class 10, Class 12 board exams and competitive exams such as JEE 2021 and NEET 2021.  Nishank had dropped in a video as well on Twitter requesting the same.  

Interacting with teachers, parents and students on upcoming competitive/board exams. #EducationMinisterGoesLive @EduMinOfIndia @SanjayDhotreMP @PIB_India @MIB_India @DDNewslive https://t.co/qOsUBJ2J30

— Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (@DrRPNishank) December 10, 2020

“Dear Teachers, Parents & Students, happy to share that I am going live on Dec10 at 10 am to talk about upcoming competitive/board exams with you. Drop your concerns below using #EducationMinisterGoesLive,” he tweeted.

Acting on his request, students, parents and teachers have taken to twitter to provide their inputs. Most of these students requested the education minister to delay/postpone exams by three months. Many also urged him to conduct at least three months of regular classes before conducting the exams. They said they had to face a lot of technical problems while attending these classes and they need some extra time for preparations. Some demanded further syllabus cut and postponement of JEE 2021 and NEET 2021 competitive exam too.  Lets have a look at some of their tweets to understand what from Union Education Minister.

“Sir its a humble request from my side Folded hands please reduce the syllabus upto 50% as we are not attending physical classes. We can only request you and rest is all yours decision,” said Prithvi Halder.    

"#EducationMinisterGoesLive Sir Project work for class12 should be cancelled and the time saved should be given to physical classes. Sir we need atleast 3months of offline classes to be well prepared for CBSE Exams. @DrRPNishank @cbseindia29,” tweeted Princi Kopal.  

"#EducationMinisterGoesLive @EduMinOfIndia Respected Sir, We students can't learn properly through online classes moreover teachers try their best, still online classes can't compete the level of classes.Upcoming board exams should be postponed,” wrote one Pankaj Kumar.  

"#EducationMinisterGoesLive @DrRPNishank @EduMinOfIndia Hon'ble sir, why don't you all listen to the problems we are facing.. it's not about having a huge gap between the exams, it's about clearing the concepts which were not cleared during online classes,” said Priya Boro.

"#EducationMinisterGoesLive @DrRPNishank We humbly request to you as a parent that class 10th & 12th Cbse board exams of session(2020-2021)should be postponed in March 2021and conducted in may 202 because due to epidemic diseases corrnavirus and uncomplete syllabus .Jai hind,” wrote Ambal Krishan Tiwary.

"#EducationMinisterGoesLive #3rd_Attempt_JeeAdvanced @DrRPNishank @EduMinOfIndia Please provide an extra attempt to 2019 pass outs in jee advanced 2021 to 2019 pass outs after qualifying jee main 2021,”wrote on JEE aspitrant Medha Bhawsar. 

“Request you to cut down the syllabus of neet and as well as jee and also postponed the examtill July by that we can prepare ourselves for best results Regards:- @DrRPNishank @DG_NTA #EducationMinisterGoesLive,” urged one Akash Yadav.  
 

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