bengaluru the karnataka government announced that the ii puc examinations will not be held this year however the sslc examination will be conducted in a multiplechoice questions format in july the minister for primary and secondary education s suresh kumar made the announcement during a press conference on friday morning while lakhs of students anxiously waiting for the decision on ii puc were relived the announcement about sslc exams has led to disappointment he however assured that no student in ii puc or sslc will be failed and everyone will be promotedin the press conference suresh kumar said that after a lot of discussions and brainstorming with experts officials and educationists the government had decided on the two crucial examinations he said suggestions from students and parents were also taken he said the government even got in touch with other state governments who had cancelled the board examinations to understand how they planned on evaluating the students without examshe said that ii puc exams were cancelled and students would be graded based on their performance in their i puc exams which were held in february 2020 the i puc exams were held on a district level based on their performance in that exam students will be graded he said adding that if any student is dissatisfied by the grades the department is considering holding exams for them after the covid situation comes under control private candidates and repeaters are also required to appear for the exams held at that time it will be considered as the first attempt for everyone he clarified he said the results will be announced by julyend the department will issue the gradation guidelines shortly the department clarified that there will be no ranking and grades like a b b will be awarded to students as their previous marks will help to decide the range but not an exact percentage of marks however the governments decision to hold examinations for the sslc students was met with disappointment as the third wave of covid is feared to affect children and youngsters as per kumars announcement the sslc examination will be held in an mcq format students will have to appear for two examinations on two different days with a gap of threefour days the first exam will be held for core subjects like science mathematics and social science each subject will be 40 marks and the total will be 120 marks the three hours long paper will have questions that are simple and straightforward assured the minister the second paper will be on languages he said the examination centres will be doubled from 3000 to 6000 and one students will be seated on one desk he said only vaccinated teachers will be assigned invigilation duties for the examinations we are not holding the exams to fail anyone the exam for sslc is being held because we do not have objective parameters to assess them as we have for ii puc students all students appearing