mumbai with the rise of covid19 cases in the city and state teachers have once again demanded that the ssc and hsc syllabus be trimmed further to help students cope as schools might remain shut for longer the state had last year announced a 25 reduction in the syllabus for board exams in november 2020 schools across the state with an exception of mumbai thane and navi mumbai reopened for classes ix to xii giving teachers and students enough time to prepare for the board examinations in the end of aprilhowever city teachers continued to demand a further reduction in syllabus since they were still not back to physical classes the brihanmumbai municipal corporation has said schools and junior colleges in the city would remain shut until further noticewe were hopeful that schools will be allowed to reopen from march 1 but with the number of cases on the rise once more it looks unlikely the board examination practicals begun even before the written exams giving us very little time to complete the syllabus said a teacher from a state board school the school is currently holding prelims for class x students and parents are required to drop off the answer sheets in school for evaluation another teachers group has demanded the board increase the internal assessment weightage to 50 a lot of students havent been able to learn online and the others needed at least some time to practice writing a paper before their board examination with the examination only two months away the board must start thinking of an alternate assessment policy it could allow the exams to be taken at the school level for at least 50 of the total marks said rajesh pandya vice president of the teachers democratic front