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How UAE schools deflected retake of CBSE exams


A week ago, India's CBSE Abu Dhabi (Central Board of Secondary Education) had said all understudies would need to return for the Class 10 math’s and Class 12 financial matters exam after it rose that exam papers had been spilled on WhatsApp.

On Friday, the CBSE said understudies outside India would not need to retake the exams. As indicated by an educationist in Dubai, the choice takes after extreme campaigning by schools in the UAE and the Gulf to the Indian Curriculum UAE.

At the point when news of the break in India broke, understudies and guardians were normally pushed. Other than the worry that understudies would need to retake the exams, there were different contemplations,"

- Dr Sanjiv Khanna | CEO of shining Star international school

In a meeting with Gulf News on Saturday, Dr Sanjiv Khanna, CEO of shining Star international school | Best Indian School Abu Dhabi, laid out how he composed a monstrous battle to persuade experts in India to excluded understudies in the UAE and Gulf nations from retaking the exams.



Dr Kumar is the administrator of the CBSE exam focus at IHS and a facilitator of seven "center points" in the Gulf that, thus, arrange with another exam focuses in the locale. There are 20 CBSE exam focuses in the UAE alone, he said.

Dr Kumar said the endeavors based on guaranteeing authorities in India that there was no requirement for an exam retake in the UAE and the Gulf as papers here had not been endangered.

With no opportunity to save, scores of school delegates marked, checked and messaged "testaments" demonstrating all the CBSE question papers got were completely represented, he included. Dr Kumar drove WhatsApp bunches planning the endeavors between schools here and on board, and transferring their confirmations to authorities in India.

He additionally called attention to that the authority and treatment of the exam papers had occurred under CCTV, which likewise guaranteed the papers had not been spilled in the UAE.

Had it not been for close coordination and campaigning, a huge number of understudies in the UAE and the Gulf may have needed to "unnecessarily" retake the exams, he said. In the UAE, around about 8,400 understudies showed up for the Class 10 exam and somewhere in the range of 2,700 understudies showed up for Class 12 paper. The remainder of the subject papers will be held by mid April.


Around the world, incorporating into India, 2.7 million understudies are taking the secondary school exams this year.

"At the point when news of the hole in India broke, understudies and guardians were normally focused. Other than the worry that understudies would need to retake the exams, there were different contemplations," Dr Kumar said.

He clarified that, for example, numerous guardians ordinarily drop the UAE habitation visa of their youngsters as they get ready to move to India where they will take college placement tests after the CBSE. Retaking the CBSE exams could have implied retaking their school affirmation exams as well.

There had likewise been the topic of boost or amendment classes at schools in front of the exam retakes.

"Being abroad, outside India, every one of these difficulties were there. We started with understanding these issues and conversing with the CBSE in India about this. We began sending these reports of affirmations that no paper was spilled in our schools and the CBSE was fulfilled, in view of our reports. Authorities in India took the choice to not hold similar exams again here. It was a major alleviation, obviously."

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