Students may not have to repeat a year

Anahita Mukherji | TNN

Mumbai: If you’ve failed a couple of papers in the SSC exam, there’s a chance you will not lose out on an entire year this time round. For the first time, the state education department is planning to allow students to re-appear for the papers they failed in a month after the results, instead of waiting till October to do so.

“We hope to implement the proposal from this year itself. We have forwarded this proposal to the Maharashtra state board of education and have asked them to revert within the next week,’’ said Maharashtra’s school education minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil.

“This way, students will save a year of study. Students who have failed in a maximum of two subjects will be able to avail of this facility. If this proposal is implemented, then the October re-examinations may be scrapped,’’ he added.

According to Basanti Roy, secretary of the Mumbai Division of the state board, this is an excellent idea and will benefit students. “It is already being implemented in certain states in India,’’ she said