[lg policy] India: CBSE Class X board exams set to become compulsory from March 2018

[Harold Schiffman]

 CBSE Class X board exams set to become compulsory from March 2018 A third
Indian language could also become compulsory until the end of high school.
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   - December 21, 2016 09:35 IST

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CBSE Class 10 exams to return from March 2018. [Representational Image]Creative
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The class 10th board exam, which has been optional for several years
<http://www.ibtimes.co.in/class-x-exams-likely-become-compulsory-again-cbse-school-students-no-detention-policy-set-643413>,
is set to become compulsory from March 2018. The Governing Body, which is
the highest decision-making body of the Central Board of Secondary Education
<http://www.ibtimes.co.in/cbse-class-10-board-examination-likely-be-reintroduced-700607>
(CBSE),
approved the restarting of Class 10th board exams on Tuesday.

Students may also have to study an Indian language apart from Hindi and
English, until they finish high school.

The weightage of the exams will be based 80% on the board exam and 20% on
internal assessments.
Related

   - J&K: Around 99 percent students appear for class 10 exams; Javadekar
   calls it 'powerful surgical strike'
   <http://www.ibtimes.co.in/jk-around-99-percent-students-appear-class-10-exams-javadekar-calls-it-powerful-surgical-704119>
   - CBSE class 10 board examination likely to be reintroduced
   <http://www.ibtimes.co.in/cbse-class-10-board-examination-likely-be-reintroduced-700607>
   - Maths and English may soon be optional for class 10 examinations in
   Maharashtra
   <http://www.ibtimes.co.in/maharashtra-may-make-maths-english-optional-subjects-class-10-exams-693603>

For the last five years, the Class 10th exam has been optional.
The Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) in 2009, started in the
UPA-era, was done to reduce exam pressure on students. However, some
educators believe that the CCE wasn't implemented properly.

"A large group of principals, teachers and parents favour the board exam.
The CCE provided a chance to identify a student's talent, but that required
skilled teachers, which many schools could not get," Ameeta Mulla Watta,
the principal of Springdales School, Pusa Road, told *Hindustan Times*.

The CBSE governing body reportedly wants strict implementation of the third
language policy. Students may have to study a third language, which will be
an Indian one, and get simple passing marks in them. A foreign language
will be treated as a fourth language and hence an elective.

However, educators believe that in the age of globalisation, forcing  a
third Indian language on students is not warranted.

"We live in the age of globalisation where students are going abroad to
study. We cannot make them study only Indian languages. We need to give
them options. If someone wants to study an Indian language as a third
language, they should. But if someone wants to take up a foreign language,
that should be allowed too," said Priyanka Gulati, the principal of
Evergreen Public School in New Delhi's Vasundhara Enclave.

Human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar reportedly gave his
assent to making the Class 10 boards compulsory a couple of months ago.
Ministry sources told HT the three-language formula could also get
approval.
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/cbse-class-10th-board-exams-set-become-compulsory-march-2018-709273


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