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Council has split plus-II courses into four semesters — semesters I and II for Class XI and semesters III and IV for Class XII
The state higher secondary council has asked schools to start online classes for those who will enroll in Class XI since schools have a prolonged summer vacation because of the heat and the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.
The council said in a notice on Monday while announcing the annual working plan for the 2024-25 session that classes for XI, under the segmented plus-II courses, will begin from May and classes of semester-I be started “if necessary on online mode”.
The council has split the plus-II courses into four semesters — semesters I and II for Class XI and semesters III and IV for Class XII.
The Madhyamik results were announced on May 2.
The education department on April 1 announced that government and government-aided schools would be on vacation from May 6 to June 2, instead of from May 9 to May 20, as the institutions would be used as polling booths.
The department later brought forward the vacation to April 22 because of the heatwave.
Schools will have to start classes early as semester-I exams will be held from September 13 to 30, a council official said.
“Since the schools will be on vacation till June 2, we have told them to start
online classes. Else they won’t be able to complete the syllabus for the first semester
and students would find it difficult to write the tests,” Priyadarshini Mallick, secretary of the council, told The Telegraph.
Ahim Nanda, headmaster of Dum Dum Shree Aurobindo Vidyamandir, said: “We would start online classes for Class XI from May 16 so the first semester syllabus can be completed on time.”
Nanda said last year they started classes for XI in the first week of June after the Madhyamik results were announced on May 19. “But now we cannot afford to wait till after the summer vacations because of the semester system,” he said.
The education department said in a notice that the teaching staff will make suitable arrangements for conducting extra classes after schools reopen to make up for the loss because of the extended summer vacation.
Chandan Maity, headmaster of Krishnachandrapur High School in Mathurapur, South 24-Parganas, said: “We will think of conducting extra lessons after the school reopens for other classes but for XI, we have to start online classes from May.”
The council in its plan announced that schools have to publish the semester-I results by October 31 this year.
Last updated on 08 May 2024
