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'Re-examination aims at reducing dropout'

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI June 21 . As per the new policy initiative announced this year, a special re-examination will be conducted from July 8 to 13 for students who failed in one or two subjects in the last annual examinations in standards VI, VII, VIII, IX and XI.

The results will be announced by the school committees in a week, an official release said.

The idea is to enable the students who failed in one or two subjects to appear for the `instant re-examination' and continue their studies, without losing one year. The measure, School Education department officials say, is aimed at reducing dropout, which is a result of failed students getting despondent. Also, extra hours spent in the same class without any productivity or knowledge addition are seen as a waste of human resource.

At present there are about 20 lakh students in secondary level education in Tamil Nadu.

About 10 per cent of them are detained for failing in one or two subjects every year in classes VI to IX and in Standard XI.

Failure in these classes affects boys and girls psychologically, leading to many of them dropping out.

By conducting the instant re-examination, such trends can be stopped, a senior administrator notes.

The re-examination system is applicable not only to State Board schools but also to those following the matriculation, Anglo-Indian and OSLC streams. The July examinations would be organised at the district/block level by the Chief Educational Officers or the district examination committees concerned.

The same rules as for the conduct of the annual examinations would apply to the re-examinations also, and it would not entail any extra expenditure, say the officials.

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