Nunavut students who missed exams can write them in April: GN

Dozens of students missed writing their English exams earlier this month, when blizzard conditions forced a handful of schools to close. Now the GN said those students will have a chance to write them in April. (FILE PHOTO)

Dozens of students across Nunavut will get a chance this spring to write Grade 12 exams that were cancelled last month because of bad weather, the territory’s department of education said Jan. 24.

About 100 students from six communities — Arviat, Whale Cove, Rankin Inlet, Baker Lake, Cape Dorset and Kimmirut — were scheduled to write the exams Jan. 13, but school officials in those six communities cancelled them because of bad weather.

The territory, which follows Alberta’s departmental exam program and schedule for exam dates, normally schedules its exams in January and June each year.

Now, Nunavut’s education department has come up with a new time slot for those who missed their January exams.

“Because so many classes and students were affected by the weather conditions, the Nunavut Department of Education and the Alberta Ministry of Education have agreed to hold the exams in April 2016, to avoid conflict with any exams in June,” the department of education said in a Jan. 24 news release.

The scheduled exam was English Language Arts 30 1 part A and 30 2 part A, which make up 30 per cent of a student’s class mark. The course is required for a Grade 12 diploma.

For more information on departmental exams in Nunavut, visit this website or contact your children’s school.