Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced that the Secondary Education Board of Assam (SEBA) will not be conducting the Class 10 HSLC Board Examinations from the next academic year. It was also notifed that henceforth, the Madhyamik level examination will be conducted as a class examination.
However, the students will be assessed properly and rewarded “pass” or “fail”, but the examinations will still be conducted at the school level instead of Board level. The Assam HS examinations would remain unaffected by this decision.
This decision to skip board exams for Class 10 has been taken as the officials believe that the Class 10 exams will not continue to be that significant, in line with the NEP. The minister also notified that soon the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) and the SEBA will be merged.
Meanwhile, SEBA announced Class 10 results in May this year. This time, a total of 94913 candidates achieved the first division (46431 boys and 48482 girls), 148573 got second division (71060 boys and 77513 girls), and 58394 students got the third division (25033 boys and 33361 girls).
Out of the 4,15,324 students who appeared in Class 10 exams, 3,01,880 students passed the exam. The board recorded an overall pass percentage of 72.69 per cent.
