New Delhi: CBSE exam controller Sanyam Bhardwaj told the media that Tenth and twelfth graders of schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will have to appear for only one board exam from next year, instead of taking it twice as they had to this year and last year.
Bhardwaj said that this was a one-time measure taken because of the Covid pandemic, adding that with schools now open and things going back to normal, the board will be reverting to the old pattern.
For the 2021-22 academic year, CBSE conducted two board exams. The board has decided not to go ahead with the decision as a permanent policy.
The NEP says, “Board exams will also be made ‘easier’, in the sense that they will test primarily core capacities/competencies rather than months of coaching and memorization; any student who has been going to and making a basic effort in a school class will be able to pass and do well in the corresponding subject board exam without much additional effort.”
“The kind of infrastructure that is required to conduct a board exam is huge – teachers, invigilators, exam-setters. It is difficult to repeat it twice every year. We have also received some representations from schools that said that conducting boards twice a year is too cumbersome,” an official said.
(Vinayak)
