ISLAMABAD – The Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training,Shafqat Mahmood Sunday reiterated that promoting students withoutexaminations is almost impossible this year.

Speaking about the issue on a private news channel, the PTI leader said theauthorities witnessed several irregularities in the grading system afterdeciding to promote the students last year. Many performing students hadbeen given poor grades whereas the British Council also agreed to conductexams following the Covid related SOPs.

‘No one could predict the future of the ongoing pandemic. Also, thedecisions of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) were notsolely taken by me’, he responded to a query.

All provincial ministers attended the NCOC sessions and the decisions havebeen taken with a consensus.