TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: SSC students repeating the examinations on October 4, will be the last batch to appear for the ATKT examination as the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has planned to do away with that system from from June 2015. Future batches will have to instead answer supplementary examinations that will be conducted within one month of the declaration of the SSC results.
The decision has been taken considering that most of the ATKT students, who are allowed to go to Class XI and answer the October or March examinations, still fail in Mathematics and Science.
“These students are already weak in studies. Once they are promoted, they not only have the burden of the subjects of Class XI but they also have to prepare for the papers they had failed in SSC. They are unable to cope up and fail in the ATKT attempt as well,” GBSHSE Chairman J R Rebello told Herald.
A total of 1965 students, who had failed in one or two subjects will re-appear for exams under the ATKT rule on Saturday.
“From next year onwards, those who fail in the SSC will get an immediate opportunity to answer supplementaries a month later. They will not have any additional load of studies while they in the higher class,” he said. The Goa Board has already phased out ATKT rule for Classes IX and XI in 2012, replacing it with a supplementary.
