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While the original JEE Mains 2020 was to be scheduled in April, the pandemic messed up the education timeline. Now, the said exam will happen between July 18-23.
Students across the nation are demanding the cancellation or postponement of the upcoming exams. Everyone fears the covid-19 pandemic and their fears are justified. Almost every day, we can see various tweets from candidates asking HRD Minister Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal to postpone the exams. Students and parent have flooded his posts with cancellation requests. Not only JEE Mains 2020, but students are demanding to cancel NEET 2020, CA, CS and NCHM JEE exams.
The exams have been already postponed twice and as we look at the current situation, the exams may be postponed even further. As of now, it is only a plea. So, let's take a look at what the students are asking.
Students demand JEE Mains 2020 postponement
Under every tweet of the HRD Minister, there are over 200 tweets of students. Here are some:
1. A Student talking asking for postponement over health concerns:
We, students want our names in selection list , not obituaries. #postponeneet#HealthOverExams#postponejee#JusticeForStudents#StudentLivesMatter
— Kartikey Bhardwaj (@Kartikey_4746) June 10, 2020
2. The Gov cancelled UPSC exams. Thus, students are now enraged over why HRD Min is not cancelling JEE Mains 2020 and NEET 2020.
If upsc can ve postponed then why not NEET ND JEE.
first open ur vidhan sabha amd sansad bhawan ,go in public ,and den only conduct our exams😒
Aisa to hai nahi ki exm hote hi doctor engineer ki degree mil jaegi humsabko.#postponeneet2020#postponejee2020 #wearenottestingkits— Anshika Singh_29 (@Anshika56619636) June 10, 2020
3. Further, students even called out his hypocrisy and tweeted:
Ek taraf stay home stay safe dusri taraf exam what the hell is this ,#postponejee#postponedneet#neet2020postpone#PMModi#HealthOverExams
— Alice (@Alice39688228) June 11, 2020
4. Moreover, even parents tweeted their fears:
Sir please postpone jee and neet exams because corona cases are increasing day by day. Do you gurantee that my child will not be effected by corona. #postponejee #postponeneet #healthoverexams
— Anupam Sharma (@_AnupamSharma) June 10, 2020
Lastly...
The trend has garnered a lot of support and we wait for the HRD Min to speak out about the issue. But India is not the only country to schedule exams during the pandemic. For example, the government conducted employment exams in South Korea, in a soccer field while maintaining social distancing. Further, in Israel, exams are conducted on schedule while maintaining social distancing.
Even in India, for CBSE exams, the government has asked schools to take exams of their students instead of sending them to designated centres. Further, IIT Bhubaneshwar is going to conduct online exams from software that they developed.
Let us know what you think.