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Delhi govt withdraws order barring Class 10 board exams for R3 failure
The Delhi government's education department on Tuesday withdrew its August 17 order that barred Class 10 students from appearing for board examinations unless they passed the third-language (R3) paper opted for in Class 9. The withdrawal came after a discrepancy was noticed between the department's order and an earlier July 10 directive from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
In a correction notice issued late Tuesday, the department said CBSE's July 10 circular will prevail. CBSE's order stated that the Secondary School Examination Pass Certificate would be awarded only after students cleared R3 while studying in Class 10, but did not bar students from taking the board exam if they had not cleared R3. The three-language policy, effective from July 1, makes it compulsory for Class 9 and 10 students to study three languages, with at least two being Indian languages. CBSE has clarified that R3 is assessed through school-based internal evaluation and students will not be barred from taking the board exam based on R3 performance.
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The confusion arose because the Delhi education department's August 17 order went beyond CBSE's policy by making R3 clearance a precondition for appearing in the board exam itself, whereas CBSE only links it to the final pass certificate. This meant students could write the exam but would not get a certificate until they passed R3 internally. The swift rollback within a day suggests the department acted without cross-checking its own rules against CBSE's master circular. Schools in Delhi, which had just received the now-withdrawn order, now need to revert to CBSE's July 10 framework. The next milestone is the Class 9 internal assessment cycle for R3, which will determine how many students are affected.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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