PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, April 18: The CBSE schools in Jamshedpur have welcomed the board’s recent decision to revert to the pre-pandemic pattern, by conducting board exams once a year from 2023.
Although the new National Education Policy mentions two board exams for classes X and XII, the board has decided not to go ahead with the decision as a permanent policy.
10th and 12th graders of various schools affiliated to the CBSE like DAV Public School, Jamshedpur Public School and Vidya Bharti Chinmaya Vidyalaya will now have to appear for only one board exam from next year, instead of taking it twice like they had to this year and last year.
For the 2021-22 academic years, CBSE conducted two board exams.
Board exams will also be made easier, in the sense that they will test primarily core capacities and competencies rather than months of coaching and memorisation; 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.
“Conducting two board exams in a year was cumbersome. It was also putting pressure on students,” explained a teacher of a CBSE school.
She went on to say that the kind of infrastructure that is required to conduct a board exam is huge – teachers, invigilators, exam-setters etc.
