Hyderabad: Revision test for class 10 students hits roadblock

HYDERABAD: District education officials’ plans to conduct revision tests for Class 10 students may face obstacles as schools still have to complete about seven chapters.
Officials who are planning to conduct revision tests to improve the pass percentage of Secondary School Certification examination 2020 said the situation is worse in private schools as they are yet to complete around seven chapters when state-run schools have four or five left.In most of the schools, pendency is said to be more in mathematics.
We have decided to conduct special revision tests in private schools too. However, when we visited a few private schools, we were shocked to see most of them still have to complete about seven chapters,” said B Venkata Narassamma, district education officer (DEO), Hyderabad.
The DEO said she directed both government and private school managements and principals to conduct extra classes and complete syllabus by the second week of December so that they can go ahead with the grand test from December 15. As per schedule, Class 10 students in Hyderabad district have to appear for about 40 special revision tests which will be conducted between December and February. While the overall pass percentage of the state in SSC examinations stood at 92.43% in 2019, Hyderabad district was last with 83.09 %.
Teachers working in private schools, however, claimed that most of them had already completed the syllabus.