Overview
- The state government reversed a plan for outside evaluation of all summative assessments and cut the program back to targeted classes and districts.
- Under the new order, external marking will apply to Class IX across the state and to Class VI only in nine named districts.
- School exams will still be held at each school and headmasters must send answer scripts to mandal resource centres on the same day they are completed.
- Mandal education officers were told to appoint evaluators and finish marking and upload marks online within three to five days.
- Teachers’ associations forced the change by filing formal representations that cited legal and practical objections and secured an assurance that the teacher transfer schedule will be released after Class X exams, a pledge that could shape next-term staffing and implementation.