CBSE exams offline, date sheet to be out on Oct 18
NEW DELHI: The first of a twopart system of Board examinations for this year will be held offline, last 90 minutes per subject, and offer objective-type questions, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) said on Thursday, announcing the exams will be held in November and December and the full schedule will be put up on October 18.
The CBSE, the largest education board in the country by number of students enrolled and schools affiliated, has decided to follow a two-term academic calendar this year in order to prepare for the sort of crisis that took place during the last academic session — theory examinations were scrapped after the second wave of Covid-19 took hold.
The set of exams to be held in November-december will be categorised as the term-1 exams. “After the term-1 exams, the results in the form of the marks scored will be declared. No student will be placed in the pass, compartment and essential repeat categories after the first term. The final results will be announced after the first and the second-term examinations,” the release, signed by CBSE exami
THE SET OF EXAMS TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBERDECEMBER WILL BE CATEGORISED AS THE TERM-1 EXAMS
nation controller Sanyam Bhardwaj, said.
The term-2 examination will also be offline and the questions may me objective- or subjectivetype, but that, and the timing, will depend on the state of the pandemic in the country at the time, the board said in its release on Thursday. In order to simplify the grouping of the schedule, CBSE has split the first-term exam subjects into minor and major subjects, with those classified as minor being held first.
These largely include electives.
“CBSE is offering 114 subjects in class 12 and 75 subjects in class 10. Meaning thereby CBSE has to conduct the examination of 189 subjects. If the examination of all subjects is conducted, the entire duration of examination would be 40-45 days,” the board said to explain its decision. Major subjects – nine for Class 10 and 19 for Class 12 – are largely the core ones such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, English, economics, etc.
The date sheet that will be announced on October 18 will only be for the major subjects.
“As major subjects are offered by almost all the affiliated schools, hence, exams of these subjects will be conducted by fixing the datesheet as done earlier,” the board said.