General elections: Intermediate examinations rescheduled
Examinations to now begin on May 18.
Following the unofficial announcement this week, students expressed mixed reactions regarding the change in the date. PHOTO: FILE
FAISALABAD:
Second year intermediate annual examinations under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education have been postponed due to elections.
The exams that were earlier scheduled to start from May 4, will now begin from May 18.
Faisalabad BISE Chairman Syed Mumtaz Hussain Shah told The Express Tribune that the new schedule would be officially announced next week. He said BISE officials were preparing new date sheets.
Explaining the reason behind the rescheduling of the examination, Executive District Officer (Education) Imran Sohaib said that a large number of teachers had to be assigned election duties at poling stations that would be set up at schools across the district.
He said last week, the Election Commission of Pakistan directed the Education Department to prepare a list of school and college teachers to be deployed at the poling stations.
He said the teachers and department officials would thus not be available to supervise the examinations. He said the new date for the examinations was final and that no further delay would be made in the examinations.
Following the unofficial announcement this week, students expressed mixed reactions regarding the change in the date.
Some students and parents said that rescheduling meant that examinations would now continue till the mid of June. They said it would get very hot at the exam centres. They holed that arrangements for power generators were made at the centres.
Nafeesa Anjum from Dhuddiwala said her wedding was scheduled for the first week of June. With the change in exam dates, she said, her parents would have to rearrange many things, including the venues. She feared the rearrangements might be too hard to pull off and that she might have to miss some of her examinations and sit the supplementary examinations.
She said likewise, many other students would be affected from the new date.
However, Muhammad Nazeer Ahmad, an intermediate student from Jaranwala, said the new date would give him more time to study.
“I am happy to get two extra weeks for preparation. At times like this, even a single day counts,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2013.
Second year intermediate annual examinations under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education have been postponed due to elections.
The exams that were earlier scheduled to start from May 4, will now begin from May 18.
Faisalabad BISE Chairman Syed Mumtaz Hussain Shah told The Express Tribune that the new schedule would be officially announced next week. He said BISE officials were preparing new date sheets.
Explaining the reason behind the rescheduling of the examination, Executive District Officer (Education) Imran Sohaib said that a large number of teachers had to be assigned election duties at poling stations that would be set up at schools across the district.
He said last week, the Election Commission of Pakistan directed the Education Department to prepare a list of school and college teachers to be deployed at the poling stations.
He said the teachers and department officials would thus not be available to supervise the examinations. He said the new date for the examinations was final and that no further delay would be made in the examinations.
Following the unofficial announcement this week, students expressed mixed reactions regarding the change in the date.
Some students and parents said that rescheduling meant that examinations would now continue till the mid of June. They said it would get very hot at the exam centres. They holed that arrangements for power generators were made at the centres.
Nafeesa Anjum from Dhuddiwala said her wedding was scheduled for the first week of June. With the change in exam dates, she said, her parents would have to rearrange many things, including the venues. She feared the rearrangements might be too hard to pull off and that she might have to miss some of her examinations and sit the supplementary examinations.
She said likewise, many other students would be affected from the new date.
However, Muhammad Nazeer Ahmad, an intermediate student from Jaranwala, said the new date would give him more time to study.
“I am happy to get two extra weeks for preparation. At times like this, even a single day counts,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2013.