{"id":70157,"date":"2025-04-09T18:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70157"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:07:03","slug":"punjab-announces-no-board-exams-for-grades-5-and-8-this-year-says-pecta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/punjab-announces-no-board-exams-for-grades-5-and-8-this-year-says-pecta\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab announces no board exams for grades 5 and 8 this year, says PECTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab Education Curriculum Training and Assessment Authority (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/karachi-matric-annual-examination-begins-authorities-impose-section-144\/\">PECTA<\/a>) has decided not to conduct board examinations for grades 5 and 8 this academic year. Instead, only assessments will be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken during a high-level meeting chaired by PECTA CEO Dr. Shahenshah Faisal Azeem. The move is aimed at reducing exam pressure on students and focusing on concept-based learning.<\/p>\n<p>The authority confirmed that the move is in line with modern educational practices, which emphasize continuous assessment over traditional high-stakes examinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab Education Curriculum Training and Assessment Authority (PECTA) has decided not to conduct board examinations for grades 5 and 8 this academic year. Instead, only assessments will be conducted. The decision was taken during a high-level meeting chaired by PECTA CEO Dr. Shahenshah Faisal Azeem. The move is aimed at reducing exam pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[27678,27677],"class_list":["post-70157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-pecta","tag-punjab-education-curriculum-training-and-assessment-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70158,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70157\/revisions\/70158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}