Addressing a news conference in Islamabad after a special National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) meeting, he said O and A level exams had been cancelled and would now happen within the October-November cycle. However, A2 exams will keep running for those students who want to seem for the aim of applying to foreign universities.

It has been directed strictly that after Monday; quite 50 people won't be in one Centre. For that we've requested that schools be made venues, the minister said, adding that enforcement personnel are going to be deployed to take care of discipline.



In a tweet, Mahmood said the choice had been taken to deal with the health concerns of scholars and parents. All exams cancelled till June 15 and counting on the spread of the disease may even go further, he wrote.
He said Cambridge exams had been postponed till Oct-Nov for all grades, while the sole exception was for those A2 students "who have a compulsion to require the exam now.

According to the minister, university admissions in Pakistan are going to be aligned for grade 12 and A2 students who are going to be taking exams in Oct-Nov. This is to make sure nobody loses a year, he wrote.
The decision comes after widespread calls from students, activists and politicians for the govt to cancel the Cambridge exams in sight of the third coronavirus wave.

Mahmood during the presser said a rapid increase had been seen within the disease since the last meeting persisted the difficulty at the NCOC on April 18, when it had been decided that exams would be held as per schedule.

 


But because the country is occupation a direction where areas with high infection rates could be placed under a lockdown, he said, it had been decided with consensus that all exams are going to be cancelled until June 15.

The decision means the exams of grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 that were thanks to start at the top of May stand postponed further, Mahmood added.

We will continue analysing [the situation] and in mid-May or within the third week of May, we'll analyse the disease and a choice are going to be made whether to further postpone exams or allow them to require place. This suggests that if exams are started after June 15, they might enter July and a few a part of August also ,he announced.



The minister said the cancelled exams of O, A and AS level would now happen within the October-November cycle, adding that for college kids who wanted to review in Pakistani universities, the govt would make sure that admissions remained open till January in order that they didn't face any problems.

But despite doing all this, one section of scholars is left whose year are going to be wasted if they do not sit the exams now, he said, pertaining to A2 students, which number around 20,000 in total.

After discussion, it had been decided that students in A2 who thanks to some compulsion cannot postpone their exams beyond September,  are going to be given the power to require exams consistent with the date sheet they received, for his or her facilitation.