Schools adapt to focus on revision for boards

NEW DELHI: Within days of the Delhi government imposing a blanket ban on in-person lessons for all classes, irrespective of whether they had board exams in the academic year, school principals said they have started changing the academic calendars to ensure students of classes 10 and 12 can save time in the run-up to board exams, while simultaneously ensuring they are in good health.

- Aheli Das

Generally, most schools conduct pre-board exams for classes 10 and 12, and unit tests for other classes in November.

"The mock exam for classes 10 and 12 were supposed to start from Wednesday," said Tania Joshi, principal of The Indian School, adding that following the pre-boards, crash courses are held from mid-December to help students.

"To maximise the utilisation of online classes, we have swapped the November and December schedule. We are conducting the crash course now and will hold the exams later," Joshi said.