No table -marking, take papers home: PSEB

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, March 20

Changing its five-year-old practice of table marking in Class 10 and 12 board exams in view of Covid, the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) on Friday asked teachers to take answer sheets home.

In a letter to principals of all schools and coordinators of marking centres, the PSEB said in view of the Covid threat, the State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) had decided to stop the table marking so that there was no assembly of these teachers at one place.

In 2015, the PSEB had started table marking for answer sheets of Class 10 and 12 board exams.

The table marking was started to ensure that evaluation was done with utmost care on the campus and errors were minimised. In table marking, teachers used to sit in one room of a marking centre, set up at a school.

Practical exams postponed

Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, on Friday announced to postpone the practical examination of nursing, physiotherapy and pharmacy courses, which were scheduled to start on March 21, for an indefinite period in view of Covid spread