SWAT: Private and government schools teachers associations were rejected the government’s decision to change the schedule of matriculation exams and hold them in April instead of March and demanded that the exams of 9th and 10th grades be held on March 5 as per the schedule to save students from wasting their valuable time.
These views were expressed by Member of Private Schools Regulatory Authority (PSRA) Malakand Division Amjad Ali Shah while holding a press conference at Swat Press Club on Thursday along with Vice President PEN KPK Abdul Wadood, President Private Schools Management Association Swat Zafar Shalmani, President Senior Officers Association Swat Akram Saeed, Chairman PSMA Swat Safdar Aziz , Sawab Khan, Akhtar Ali Khanji, Alam Khan Vice President Buner, Shah Faisal.
They said that the private and government school and college organizations of all districts of Malakand division demand from Education Minister Faisal Khan Tarakai and Education Secretary Masood Ahmed Khan that the matriculation examination 2025 should be held on March 5 itself and the decision to hold it in the month of April should be withdrawn.
They said that suggestions are coming from the provincial government but we believe that if it is decided to delay the matriculation examination 2025 based on Ramadan and hold it from March 5 to April 8, it will be an unwise decision.
They said that after many years, the teaching session has started after 2019 till 2025 according to its original working hours, but now a statement has come out to postpone the matriculation examination from March 5 to the first week of April. Due to which the teaching sessions of classes 9th and 10th will also be delayed.
“In the light of past experiences, it can be said that students will never come to school on the 44th day because they will not have textbooks and thus a delay of two months will have a bad effect on the new teaching session, added that due to the effect of a delay of two or three months, the students will not have come out yet when the schools will be closed in the winter zone for a month in July and for 70 days in winter and thus the teachers will have 6 months left to teach the students a one-year course and there will be pressure on the teachers to complete the course and the quality will have to be compromised,” they further said.
They said that due to the delay in the examinations in the province, there is also a fear of losing a semester of aspiring students from our province in the educational institutions of the federal and Punjab because the classes of professional institutions start three or four months late. Due to delayed exams, aspiring students of professional institutions are left out of admission missions of other universities and in case of non-admission in professional institutions, students lose an academic year.
“Therefore, the government should review and hold the frog exams on March 5, while maintaining its previous working hours and examination schedule,” They demanded.
