Assam Board Cancels Remaining HS First Year Exams 2025 Due To Panchayat Polls

GUWAHATI: Citing the upcoming Panchayat Elections, the Assam State School Education Board, Division-II (erstwhile AHSEC), has announced the cancellation of the remaining HS First Year Examinations, 2025. The decision, taken in a board meeting on April 4, 2025, comes in light of teachers' engagement in election-related duties, making it unfeasible to conduct the pending examinations.

The notification states that the election process will extend until May 20, 2025, as scheduled by the State Election Commission. The board concluded that holding the remaining exams before or after the polls would be logistically challenging, with teachers required for election preparations, training, polling duties, and vote counting. While ensuring an alternative academic evaluation process, the board opted to cancel the remaining examinations.

The board has decided that all candidates who appeared in the subjects examined in March 2025 will be eligible to sit for the HS Final Examination in 2026 in order to mitigate the impact on students.

Additionally, it reaffirmed that the Class XI examination is primarily a school-based assessment. To maintain uniformity and help students prepare for the HS Final Examination, the board has standardized question papers over the past eight years.

However, individual institutions retain the flexibility to assess student performance internally. This decision has raised concerns among students and educators, while it aims to accommodate unavoidable administrative constraints.

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