Drop-outs can head to open school

Drop-outs can head to open school

Discontinued your studies? Failed in an exam and couldn’t study further? Well, open school is here to help you out

If statistics are to be considered, every year 11 lakh students pass out from class X but only 7.5-8 lakh  students make it intermediate for various reasons. However, with the availability of open school system, those students who discontinued their studies can breathe easy. AP State Open School (APOSS) was established in the year 1991 to provide a gateway to students those who discontinue their studies. The courses are available in Hindi, Telugu, English, Urdu, Oriya, Marathi and Arabic mediums.

Salient features:

• The courses offered at APOSS are equivalent to formal courses for seeking job opportunities and higher studies.
• Students can take up their choice of subjects out of 27 available subjects.
• Classes are conducted only during the weekends and holidays. And the student has to attend minimum of 20 classes out of 30 classes. 
• The best feature of this course is that the subjects the student had passed in before discontinuing studies will be transferred in open school course. He/she can study only the subjects he failed in. 
• The eligibility criteria is that he/she should be minimum of 14 years for SSC course and 15 years for  intermediate course.

APOSS offers two courses SSC Course:
Nearly 92,860 students took admission into APOSS in the year 2010-11 and nearly 1,06,823 students are expected to join in the academic year 2011-2012. For admission to study high school course of SSC syllabus, no minimum qualification is required. SSC course is being offered in nearly 1,300 schools across the state.