“On Wednesday, I had a Hindi exam. I was well prepared. But our teacher informed us the previous day that the exam had been postponed. I don’t know when the exams will start again. We are really confused,” said Sangeetha, a class 9 student who studies in a private school in Bengaluru.
On March 12, the Supreme Court set aside the interim order of a division bench of the High Court of Karnataka, which had given the State government a green signal to conduct board exams for the summative assessment of students of classes 5, 8, and 9. Following the apex court order, the Education Department stopped the exams of these classes, which began on March 11. This was the third twist within a week to the saga of whether or not students of these classes can be made to write a board examination.
