West Bengal Government Discards Screening Test for Classes 10, 12 Appearing Students

November 12, 2020: West Bengal State Government has announced that it will not conduct any screening test for Class 10 and 12 students preparing for WB Board Exam 2021. The final decision was officially announced by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on November 11, 2020.

In view of increasing cases of COVID-19 infections in the state, the WB Chief Minister decided that it will be better not to hold any selection tests for screening of West Bengal Board 2021 candidates. The decision is made of students who are preparing to appear for Madhyamik and Uccha Madhyamik Board Exams. 

Earlier, West Bengal State Government was scheduled to conduct a screening test for the selection of Class 10th and 12th candidates. Further after the screening test, only qualified candidates would be eligible to appear in the board examination. 

However, for the Board Examination 2021, the decision has been made to set aside the screening test for Board candidates. The announcement for the same was made by the Chief Minister of states, during a cabinet meeting on November 11, 2020. 

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Referring to the decision, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said "Students could not go to schools due to Covid-19 pandemic. The education department has taken a decision that those willing to take the 2021 Madhyamik and Uccha-Madhyamik exams will not require to clear any test. They will be allowed to sit for these (two) examinations.”

On the other hand, the State Government also announced, commencing the recruitment process for vacant seats. The recruitment process will begin for the post of various teaching and non-teaching staff in the states. 

There are a total of 16,500 vacancies available, out of which 20,000 candidates who have cleared the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) will appear. 2,50,000 applicants have registered for the offline Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) 2020. 

Exam details along with guidelines will soon be published at the official exam portal of the West Bengal Government.

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