CBSE to end one-term syllabus for Class X exam
This
year’s CBSE Class X board exams, the results of which were announced on
Saturday, will be the last one to test only one semester’s syllabus. From next
year, the CBSE will move back to testing the entire school year’s syllabus in
the board exams, and do away with the system of Continuous and Comprehensive
Evaluation (CCE) introduced in 2009-10.
The
CCE was intended at reducing the emphasis on the board exams by focusing on
other school-based assessment, including mid-term tests, school projects, and
extracurricular activities. In the new system, the board exams will have a
weightage of 80%, with 20% of the assessment done in school.
Students
who had appeared for the board exams this year said one of the best things
about the system was that it tested just one term’s syllabus. “I think doing
the full portion would be very difficult. It might be okay for maths, but for
science and social science, it wouldn’t be easy. It would involve 25 chapters
instead of 12, which are already dense enough,” said Neer Savla, from SKKE
school.
“I
think from the students’ point of view, having to study more would add
pressure,” said Isha Phadnis from DAV School, Thane. The other benefit of
one-semester syllabus was that the board exams then seemed like any other test,
relieving the pressure on students.
The
teaching system will have to be modified to equip students for the change, said
Deepshika Srivastava, principal of Rajhans Vidyalaya. “Children might find it
difficult. Extra efforts are now needed to prepare them. We will have to build
the exams up slowly, organising one round, maybe two rounds of preliminary
exams before the boards with the full syllabus,” she said.
This
will reduce the emphasis on extracurricular activities and reports that
students had grown accustomed to scoring in.
Others,
though, view this move as bringing seriousness back to students’ education. “I
think the lack of exclusive focus on the board exams made students lose their
focus on academics,” said Beena Thambi, principal, Mahatma School, New Panvel.
“We are also seeing marks go up so much —up to 99.6%, and 100 in individual
subjects. The new system might tighten the marking system, and bring order back
into it. Students would take academics more seriously as well.”
Source | The Hindu | 5 June 2017
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