#CancelNEBExams is currently trending on different social media. Students, Stakeholders, and other personalities have started a campaign on Twitter where more than 80k people have tweeted using this trend.
The National Examination Board is preparing to conduct the class 12 examination from 31 July to 9 August. For this, the Board is preparing to send question papers to every school through an online medium. According to board data, few hundred schools cannot use the online method, so ‘physical copy’ is delivered there.
What is #CancelNEBExams?
The board, which is preparing for the exam, does not care for the students’ health. Although the rate of COVID-19 infection is rising again, it has not given up the idea about the examination in physical presence. NEB estimates that there will be no problem as the examination will be held at the home center.
According to data provided by Chandra Mani Poudel, chairperson of the board, one bench will have one student, one class will have 20 students, and one school will have a maximum of 200 students. Due to this, the board claims that the students will not be uncomfortable inside the examination hall.
This issue was not a hot debate on social media a few days ago. Then, however, when the state health minister himself took the initiative to postpone the exams of everyone, including class 12, due to the corona epidemic, the social media started heating up. Some news publications even published the news that the exam has been postponed.
After this, the students started posting on social media in support of the health minister. Finally, this sequence is now running as a campaign – #CancelNEBExams.
Milan Pandey says, “Let’s stop this exam without preparation. It’s not an exam, it’s a stress to students and parents. Let’s do the test online or just get vaccinated. The exam is not something that is delayed for some time. Health is greater than exams.”
What do the Stakeholders Say?
There is another side to the mental impact that can be on the students by conducting such forced examinations. However, ignoring the problem so far, the board is preparing for the exam.
Forcing now means not understanding the situation. It’s about humiliating students. Instead, the stakeholders need to make sustainable internal assessments better. That is the need of the current situation. Therefore, most of the experts are suggesting that it would be appropriate to give the responsibility to the school itself and ask them to conduct the examination in a suitable manner.
Similarly, Sher Bahadur Pun, infectious disease expert, says that ‘There is a fear of spreading the disease if the examination is unorganized. COVID-19 pandemic is on the rise again, so we don’t have to let the examination be a tool to spread the virus.’
Even before conducting the current bachelor’s degree exams, Tribhuvan University has not rattled health standards. Due to this, the students are afraid that the upcoming exam will be similarly exhausting.
However, the examination board has promised to have one bench, one examinee, one school, and a maximum of 200 students. The students, on the other hand, view it as a trivial matter.
Some students are raising their voices for internal evaluation. Prior to this, the CBSE board of India has also prepared for internal evaluation this year. So, NEB can also take a step regarding this issue.
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