A retake exam will be offered in October by Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) in response to the unrest brought on by the chaos on May 10, 11, and 12. The government’s announcement on Friday aims to allay parents’ and students’ worries about unforeseen results in the A and AS-level exams of 2023.
Key participants in the meeting, including the Country Director of CAIE Uzma Yousaf, the Director of the British Council Maria Rehman, and other educational leaders, included the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT). The main goal was to come up with a strategy to address the inconsistencies in the most recent exam results.
Cambridge will not charge retake exam fees. The British Council will help with logistics for a lower price. If there are significant differences between the Cambridge assessment grades and the grades determined by the school, the Cambridge assessment grades will be re-evaluated and re-assessed individually.
Schools will cover 80% of the costs associated with re-evaluation and reassessment requests; the remaining 20% will be covered by parents. The entire fee will be reimbursed if these assessments change the grade. The Ministry will also work with respected vice-chancellors of universities to ensure flexibility in admissions while coordinating with provincial governments to put similar measures in place.
To keep track of unresolved complaints, a complaint redressal mechanism will be set up under the Private Institution Education Regulatory Authority (PIERA) of the Ministry of Federal Education & Professional Training.
After Pakistani students received their AS and A-Level results from the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), everything started to happen. Unexpected grades resulted from the cancellation of exams on May 9 and May 12 due to political unrest. In order to improve their grades, students and parents demanded that the postponed exams be rescheduled. Cambridge International responded by communicating that they were gradually bringing the pre-pandemic standard of 2019 back.
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