The Central Board
of Secondary Education (CBSE) has introduced major changes in the paper pattern
of class 12 and 10 examinations. The changes are being made to improve the
quality of education by focussing on a student’s analytical skills rather than
rote learning. The Board exams are also expected to get preponed, Practical
exams to be held in December and Main Exams to be held in February. Finishing off
all the papers in the month of March will ensure that results are released
early and students will get more time to prepare for competitive exams, such as
NEET and JEE, as well as in searching for good course and college for their
admissions.
The board will now
give more importance to the internal assessment of the students. Major change
will be observed in the questions paper format in the board exam 2020. This
time, question papers will have a greater number of objective type questions
(or MCQs).
CBSE changed the
examination pattern with an aim to
·
discourage students from rote
learning
·
develop analytical skills and
reasoning abilities among students
·
produce better results and improve
the academic quality of institutions
A. 20 Marks from Internal Assessment
As per the new assessment scheme,
now, about 20% marks will be kept for internal assessment in all these
subjects. Thus, from 2020 board exam, the CBSE board Exam paper will carry 80%
marks. However, for the Science subjects and fine arts the weightage will
remain unchanged.
To
know the marks allotment for internal assessment and theory paper for other
subject, visit the official site of CBSE and go through the latest CBSE syllabus for academic session
2019-2020.
The internal assessment will be like as following:
·
10 marks from
internal evaluation: In Mathematics, 10 marks out of
20 will be taken from the results of the school exams. The remaining 10 marks
will be taken from internal evaluation.
·
20 marks for
Assessment for Speaking and Listening (ASL): In
Class 12 English subject, 20 marks for internal assessment will be taken from
ASL. This means students will be tested for their English language listening
and speaking skills, on the basis of which they may secure maximum 20 marks.
ASL will be conducted by the external examiners.
B. More Number of Objective Type Questions
Now, for class 12 students, CBSE has
introduced 25% Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) in all the subjects from 2020
board exam onwards. Thereby, out of 80, only 60 marks will be given to the
subjective type questions where students are required to write the detailed
answers. This step is taken to discourage students from rote learning and to
improve reasoning abilities. According to the officials, CBSE Board Exam papers
may pick any line from NCERT textbook and turn it into a fill in the blank or
objective type question. Only those students who are thorough with all the
subjects would be able to secure good marks.
This will definitely help students
improve their scores in exams as it will save their time in writing lengthy
answers.
C.
Increased Number of Internal Choices
This year only, CBSE Board already
increased number of internal choices in all sections of question paper by 33%.
The same practice will further be continued for all subjects in the class 12
board examination 2020. The increased number of choices between questions helps
students to answer the question in which they are more confident about and so
help them score more marks in board examinations.
D.
Practical Exam to be Conducted Externally
CBSE has proposed
to conduct practical examinations at external centres same as for the theory
exams from 2020 onwards. Board may also develop a new marking scheme for
practical exams for CBSE Class 10 and Class 12.
E.
Practical Exams to be Preponed to December
As per the latest reports, CBSE may
prepone the practical examinations for classes 10 and 12 to the month of
December (Dec 15). As for the main examinations, CBSE 10th 12th Board Exams
2020 would begin from February 15. However, board has not issued any
confirmation regarding the same. CBSE may release the CBSE 10th 12th Board
Exams 2020 date sheets by end of November again.
F.
Changes in the Chronology of Exams
From 2020, the
main examinations will be conducted before the vocational examinations. The
chronological order of the subjects for CBSE 10th and 12th Board exams 2020
date sheet will be based on the number of students appearing for the CBSE Board
Exam 2020. Basically, exams for the subject having the greatest number of
students will be conducted first.
G.
Changes in Syllabus
For this year
academic session 2019-2020, Board has also omitted some chapters from the
syllabus. CBSE Class 12 Chemistry and CBSE Class 12 Physics.
Students must go through the latest CBSE syllabus to know the topics prescribed
for board examination 2020.
Major changes in CBSE Class 10 Exam
Pattern
The
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is likely to change the exam
pattern for class 10 board exams. After introducing internal marking for English and
mathematics papers, two-level mathematics exam
options, now the board is likely to decrease the number of objective
questions asked in CBSE class 10 board exams. The questions will be replaced by
more elaborate answers to ensure creative writing and discourage rote learning.
Board experts are considering if
they can reduce the number of questions and increase the marks for each
question and encourage students to write detailed answers.
“The changes will be part of the
routine review exercise ahead of exams. Once the changes are finalised, sample
papers will also be released so that students get an idea and also get to
practice the same before exams,” a senior CBSE official said.
Besides, all the major changes in
the question pattern of board exams, syllabus, practical exams, chronology and
time of exams, the board has also come up with some changes in the evaluation
process. Board want to give more time to the examiners to evaluate the papers
error-free. Some steps will be taken to ease the load of copy coordination,
like reducing the number of copies to be evaluated in a day. An evaluator is
now expected to check only 20 answer scripts instead of 25 in the main
subjects. This will lessen the coordination work from 100 to 80 copies.
The board has also planned to
introduce new by-laws. These are for evaluating the academic quality of an
institution before declaring it as an affiliated school or to renew an
affiliated school’s certification. The institution and its infrastructure will
be inspected by the authorities of the state’s education department.
We
hope these changes work in betterment of every student and help in producing
better results. To perform at par with on-going changes and changed syllabus,
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