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SRINAGAR — Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have said that annual examination for classes 10th, 11th and 12th will be held in the month of November this year.

In a notification issued by Director Academics, Dr Farooq Ahmad Peer, the J&K Board of School Education said that there will be 30 percent relaxation in Syllabus in annual examinations of 10th, 11th and 12th classes which is scheduled to be held in November 2020.

“It is notified for information of all the concerned that, in view of prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, the following concession shall be awarded to the students of classes 10th, 11th and 12th Annual, Regular appearing in the forthcoming examinations likely to be held in the month of November 2020 in Kashmir Division, Winter Zone areas of Jammu Division and March 2021 for Summer Zone areas of Jammu Division, as a one-time measure,” reads an official order.

It added that the students appearing in these examinations shall have to attempt only 70% marks from the question papers which shall be treated as 100% at the time of evaluation and the score of students attempting less than 70% from the question paper shall be raised proportionately.

The students should note that question papers will be set from the entire syllabus prescribed for the session, the order said, adding that, however, as the student has to attempt only 70% questions instead of attempting all the questions, thus, there is resultant concession of 30%.

“Explanation: For students appearing in subjects having practical courses, the question paper is of 100 marks and the student has to attempt questions with a total of 70 marks,” it adds, while mentioning that however, for all such subjects which have both theory and practical components, the concession will apply to theory part only e.g, in Physics, Chemistry and Biology that have a practical component of 30 marks and theory question paper of 70 marks, the students shall attempt 49 marks (70% of 70 marks only), which will be raised to 100% i.e, 70 marks.

“For other papers having different marks scheme for theory papers, the student shall have to attempt 70 marks allotted to the theory paper and or further clarification, queries can be mailed to director_acad@jkbose.co.in,” it mentions.

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