THE ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY AND SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS TOWARDS WRITING OFFLINE EXAMS DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC IN THE DELHI-NCR REGION

The spread of COVIDtransforms the lifestyle of complete society, as everyone was bound to remain self-isolated at their residence to break the chain of infection. The Covid pandemic resulted in a massive disturbance in the academic activities of the education system across the world. So, this study tried to analyze the attitude of secondary and senior secondary students to write the offline exam during the COVID pandemic.Responses were collected from the senior secondary students of classes 9 to 12 from various schools of the Delhi-NCR region. NCR means National Capital Region and comprises of the regions around Delhi which include cities like Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida, Ghaziabad etc. The NCR region has been expanded to include suburbs of New Delhi such as Sonipat, Bahadurgarh, Meerut etc. Finally, details of 470 respondents were collected through an online survey. The convenience sampling method was used to collect data.The result indicates that the willingness of students to write the exam is positively influenced by their writing practices. In contrast, the frequency of assignments given to students and their gender show insignificant influence.The insight from this paper can help to design the online curriculum in an effective way to increase the willingness of students to write offline exams during this pandemic. This study has become more relevant in the preview of increasing disturbance due to different waves of covid. This studys primary motive is to analyze the attitude of secondary and senior secondary students to write offline exams during Covid.