After the Telangana government announced that the second-year Intermediate exams would be cancelled this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown, the government has now finalised an alternative method for the calculation of the exam results.
According to reports, the TRS government has decided that second-year students' results will be based on the marks they had secured in their first-year exams. All students will be awarded full marks for their practicals and 35% for any papers in which they have backlogs.
Officials of the education department also stated that those candidates who applied in private would be given the pass mark of 35%.
Those second-year students unsatisfied with the marks they secure may opt to write exams for revised results once the current pandemic situation settles further. It has also been decided that all first-year students will be promoted to the second year.
Meanwhile, following the recent decline in reported Covid-19 case numbers and fatalities, the KCR government
lifted the lockdown that was being enforced in the state in the wake of the second wave of the pandemic since May, on June 20. As part of the gradual unlock process, the government also decided that the educational institutions in the state would be reopened by July 1.