new delhi supreme court of india on monday postponed the hearing of cbse and cisce students seeking an option of online mode along with the centerbased offline exams to november 18 the plea filed by six students who would be appearing in the board examinations alleged that the entire exercise of the boards in conducting the term one or semester one examinations in offline mode only is patently unreasonableas per the date sheet announced by the central board of secondary education cbse the term one board exams would commence from november 16semester one of the board examination of the council for the indian school certificate examinations cisce would commence from november 22the plea filed by advocate sumanth nookala said the ensuing exams be conducted in hybrid mode with an option to choose between offline and online examinationconsent assumes significance as exams directly relate to the mental health of the petitioners requiring a conducive and voluntary atmosphere to ensure a fair assessment it is common knowledge that the third wave of covid pandemic is predicted the plea saidit claimed that the proposed current system of offline examination is fraught with bad planning and lack of application of mind which will further adversely prejudice the studentseven if the respondents boards and others wanted to conduct the examinations on the said dates it had sufficient time and resources to plan it carefully and consider the concerns raised in the present petition it said