The government scaled down the annual board examinations portion for the Matriculation and Intermediate examinations next month to only elective subjects on Wednesday.
The Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training, Shafqat Mahmood, announced at a press conference that a decision has been made to reduce the syllabus portion to facilitate the students in the examinations that are due to start after 10 July all over Pakistan.
After canceling the board examinations last year due to the pandemic, the government is determined to conduct them this year as the concerned authorities took into account the decline in the new coronavirus cases that has been attributed to the increase in the number of vaccinations across Pakistan.
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The examination boards in the provinces will conduct the Matriculation and Intermediate examinations, and the subjects have been divided into the compulsory subject Urdu, English, Islamiat, and Pakistan Studies; and the elective subjects that are the Arts and Sciences subjects in particular.
Minister Mahmood explained that “the marks percentage taken by students in elective subjects will also be proportionately allocated to the [compulsory] subjects in which exams are not being taken”.
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“The students have a genuine complaint of not completing their course work. Because of the closures of schools, time and again, the students could not pay attention to their studies. Most of the students have just two months before the exams,” he stated.
However, Minister Mahmood stressed that the examinations were mandatory to minimize the loss of learning.
