The Act amended the provision of no detention till class 8th and stated that a regular examination will be held in class 5 and class 8 at the end of every academic year. If a child fails the exam, he will be given additional instruction, and take a re-examination. If he fails in re-examination too, then the relevant state or central government may decide to allow schools to detain the child.
Positives of the Amendment
Issues with the Amendment
The state must balance the aspects of poor quality outcome with high dropout rate properly.
This could be done by overcoming the structural follies of the Act like ensuring qualified teachers, ensuring healthy teacher-student ratio, reliving teachers of non-teaching activities etc.