panaji the directorate of education doe on wednesday permitted higher secondary schools to call students to institute premises for their class xi and xii formative and term tests director bhushan savaikar said that the decision was taken based on several requests from higher secondary schoolsthe doe has also outlined the sops to be strictly implemented by schools which include not allowing school staff or teachers on premises if they are not vaccinated such staffers will have to mandatorily produce a negative rtpcr report every seven daysduring the covid19 crisis the doe has received quite many requests from various higher secondary schools to allow them to conduct examinations in the offline mode now in order to maintain the standard of education the government has decided to permit higher secondary schools in the state to conduct examinations in the offline mode for students of class xi and xii savaikar stated in the circularthe permission has been granted to schools only provided they follow all necessary covid19 sops protocols and guidelines issued from timetotime by the central and state governments doe saidthe number of students in a classroom will be limited to 50 of the rooms capacity all social distancing norms have to be adhered to and students and staff should use a mask when in the school the director saidevery studentstaff shall be checked for his or her body temperature before entering school premises the entire school premises shall be sanitised every day prior to the opening of the school students having symptoms of covid19 shall be advised to have the test done immediately schools shall take all the necessary precautions and care to prevent cases of covid19 the does sops readmany higher secondary schools have scheduled their exams for class xi and xii students as early as next weekthe goa board of secondary and higher secondary education has revised the scheme of evaluation for students from class ix to xii only for the academic year 202122 as per the scheme students are to be evaluated through yearround tests so that there is no difficulty in assessing the students in case a public exam cannot be conducted due to the pandemic situation