Matriculation and intermediate syllabus reduced to facilitate students

Matriculation and intermediate syllabus reduced to facilitate students, said Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood on Wednesday.

He further said the the decision aims to minimize students’ educational loss due to closures of schools owing to to COVID-19.

Matriculation and intermediate syllabus reduced to facilitate students

Shafqat expressed these views, while addressing a press conference after holding an Inter Provincial Education Ministers Conference (IPEMC) at Higher Education Commission.

He said the exams of 9th and 10th class would be taken in only four elective subjects.

Similarly, Shafqat said, the 11th and 12th exams would also be held in only elective subjects and the exam of remaining subjects would not be held. The exams would start after July 10, he added.

He went on saying that firstly, the exams of 10th and 12th classes would be held and later, the exams of 9th and 11th would be conducted.

Moreover, he said they also decided to keep an interval between each paper.

He said the students had a genuine complain of not completing their course work.

Closure of schools negative impacts

Shafqat lamented that due to closures of schools time and again, the students could not pay attention on their studies.

Most of the students studied just two months before of the exams.

Shafqat said that the exams were mandatory to minimize the loss of learning.

The Cambridge exams, he said, were taken despite rising cases of the pandemic. For O Level students, Cambridge decided to take special exams.

The minister said we had to take difficult decisions for closure and and opening of educational institutions.

Because the pandemic had negative effects on education. IPEMC Meeting made these difficult decisions unanimously.

Furthermore, he said we had an experience of promoting students without exams.

Shafqat referred to the decision at no grades would be awarded without exams.

GTV