Education department postpones primary to middle exams

By Team CG
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April 21, 2021
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PESHAWAR: The Department of Education has announced that the annual examinations starting from May 3 will be postponed after the announcement of Eid-ul-Fitr holidays in primary to middle educational institutions in 21 districts of the province where coronavirus has an alarming situation.

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An informed source in the education department said that this year also the children will be given promotion without examination. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Department had issued orders to complete the series of annual examinations from primary to the middle from May 3 to 6, 2021, and to announce the results by May 7. Holidays have been given in schools from primary to middle till Eid-ul-Fitr due to which the annual examinations from primary to the middle in these districts have also been postponed.

Children and their parents are also in conflict after the exams were postponed. Now that the middle school is closed till primary, no decision has been taken on whether to take the exams or not.

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Education department officials are also silent in this regard. On the other hand, private schools in the same districts have also collected their monthly fees by giving question papers to the children for home examinations and most of the schools have released the results of the children.