CBSE exams

CBSE launches tele-counselling for students in Qatar
Web posted at: 2/8/2010 5:0:25
Source ::: THE PENINSULA
DOHA: As India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination of Class 10 and 12 fast approaching, the Board has launched tele-counselling in Qatar to help the parents and students beat the exam worries. The Indian Board has also set up two similar facilities in Dubai and Kuwait.

Dr Mohamed Aejaz, Principal of Ideal Indian School, who has been appointed as the Tele-Counsellor of Qatar said he has been receiving a lot of calls from the worried parents and children ever since the helpline was launched last week.

The tele-counselling will be available for all the students and their parents appearing for the Class 10 and 12 exams on 4684849 on all working days from 7am to 1pm and 5pm to 7pm.

“Parents want to know how their children can score maximum marks and how many hours the students must learn during the study holidays and lot more queries. The number of callers would go up when the exam days get closer,” he said.

Dr Aejaz said the board’s decision to replace the mark system with the grading from this year has created a lot of confusion among the parents. This is one of the major worries of the callers. An estimated 2000 students from different Indian Schools in Doha are appearing for the Class 10 and 12 examinations this time. The exams are starting on March 3, 2010

In India, where an estimated hundred thousands of students appear for exam every year, 52 principals trained counsellors from CBSE-affiliated government and private schools, psychologist and social scientists are operating help lines from Indian local time 8 am to midnight. Weighed down by the examination pressures, an increasing number of parents and children are ending their lives. This has forced the Indian government to introduce the tele-counselling facilities a few years ago.

To ease the exam worries further, the Indian Government has recently issued an order making the grade 10 board exams optional from academic year 2010-2011, facilitating the students who want to go for pre-university course, he\she can appear for 10th board exam. But in case of a student pursuing the course in the same school, he/she need not appear in the class-10 exam for promotion to Class-11, based on an internal evaluation.