The Andhra Pradesh Education Department has reintegrated students who faced failure in their Class 10 and 12 examinations from the previous year for a re-examination opportunity. Approximately 1.9 lakh students have availed themselves of this program, actively participating in classes alongside their peers as part of this special initiative.
According to the programme, students who have re-enrolled may retake any exam, including those they have previously passed, to improve their scores. However, only the higher of the two scores for each subject will be taken into account when determining their final grade in that subject. Consider a candidate who scores 60 out of 100 marks in English in 2023 but only 50 in 2024. The student’s higher English score of 60 will be retained by the board.
According to officials, this programme will increase the pass rate for students who have previously failed and motivate academically challenged students to continue their education, thereby reducing the number of dropouts. Meanwhile, re-enrollment and other benefits under the government schemes will be available to students for a year only.
Furthermore, experts claim that social disengagement and other psychological issues may result from the unexpected loneliness and isolation that some of the failing students felt during the break.
The Department of School Education in Andhra Pradesh launched an initiative called ‘Mentor a Student’ earlier this week to help students score well on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Principal Secretary, of School Education, Praveen Prakash has urged teachers, parents, and department officials to take on the responsibility of making the State-level initiative a success. Students in Classes 6 to 9 would be mentored by their teachers, who would assist them in honing their English listening and speaking skills.
Setting a good example, Principal Secretary, of School Education, Prakash announced that he would mentor Santosh, a Class 6 student, and encouraged others to do the same. “It is important to mentor students in this area to infuse confidence in them,” he went on to say.
The department has been directed to include a TOEFL period in the daily curriculum. Similarly, in the formative and summative tests, a separate exam (English Paper-II) will be administered, but the classes will be limited to listening and speaking skills because vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension are already covered in the regular English course.
As part of a five-year partnership with the US-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) to provide English-speaking skills training to students in state-run schools, the latter will evaluate and certify students’ English language proficiency through its TOEFL Young Students Series assessments.
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