Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced the Live session on his Twitter account, “Dear Students, I am constantly receiving a lot of your messages and information. Also, you have expressed concern about my health. For this, I would like to express my thanks to all of you and say that I am feeling healthy now. Some of your apprehensions have also been expressed in your messages. But was unable to communicate with you due to ongoing treatment in the hospital.

If you have any other queries related to CBSE exams then you can send me on Twitter, Facebook, or also by mail. I will try to solve them by going live on June 25 at 4 PM

On June 1, 2021, the Prime Minister announced that the CBSE Class 12 board exams 2021 would be canceled. The Supreme Court adopted the evaluation criteria 30:30:40 when the Board submitted on June 18, 2021. The result will be declared by CBSE on July 31, 2021.

On Thursday, Union Education Minister announced that Government has decided to extend the validity period of the Teachers Eligibility Test qualifying certificate from 7 years to lifetime with retrospective effect from 2011. The respective State Govts. /UTs will take necessary action to revalidate/issue fresh TET certificates to those candidates whose period of 7 years has already elapsed, he added.

The Teacher Eligibility Test, known as TET, is the minimum qualification required in India for a person to be eligible for appointment as a teacher for Classes I to VIII. The test is mandatory for teaching jobs in Indian government schools. There are two papers: Paper 1, for teachers of Classes I to V, and Paper 2 for Classes VI to VIII. The TET is conducted both by the central and state governments of India. Most states conduct their own TET. (From Wikipedia). People with professional teaching qualifications, including the B.T.C (D.El.Ed), B.Ed, and B.El.Ed, is eligible to take the test. Candidates must score over 60% to pass.

CBSE maintains the TET database and guides government bodies on conducting the test.

Union Education Minister has already clarified that the CBSE board examinations will be conducted in offline mode and under the COVID-19 protocol. CBSE has already reduced the syllabus of 10th and 12th classes by 30%. Revised sample papers of CBSE 10th, 12th examinations have also been released on the official website of CBSE. Earlier, Education Minister Nishank tweeted, ‘I assure all my students, parents, teachers and institutes that all decisions related to examinations will be taken keeping in mind your interest and bright future.