The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), keeping in view the acute shortage of trained professionals and development of employability skills among the students, has been offering a number of courses under vocational Education at Senior Secondary level. In recent years, the CBSE has started collaborating with various industries/ institutions for introducing competency based joint [...]

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CBSE has issued sample papers for 2011 examination. The date sheet is already announced and it can be downloaded from the links below : 1.    Class 10 Datesheet 2011 2.    Class 12 Datesheet 2011 The datesheet for school based home examination will be decided by schools as per CBSE guidelines. They can set their own [...]

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CBSE has issued a circular to all affiliated schools instructing them to offer additional subject in class 9 and 10 only if they have adequate infrastructure and teachers. The detailed circular is provided below. As you are aware that as per scheme of studies, a candidate is required to offer the following subjects at secondary [...]

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French, German and Spanish are quite popular in classes VI to VIII but with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) deciding to introduce Mandarin Chinese in schools academicians say the language will find many takers. Jyoti Bose, principal, Springdales School in Dhaula Kuan, said, ‘‘We tried introducing Chinese in our school last year and [...]

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Don’t be surprised if your kids move on from playing Chinese whispers to mouthing Mandarin. Recognizing the growing economic influence of China, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to introduce Mandarin in schools starting with class VI from 2011-12 session. The curriculum is nearly ready and the Board has already written to [...]

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Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi has changed the pattern of English Question Paper for second term (March 2011) examination. The new modified sample question paper can be downloaded from the sample paper section of http://myCBSEguide.com. In this new pattern the total weightage of MCQ type questions has been reduced to 26 percent. Originally [...]

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The Teachers’ Manual for Classes VI-VIII has been long awaited as the scheme of CCE at the upper primary level was announced vide circular No. 02 dated 31.01.2006. After initiating Achievement Records for Classes I-V detailing the various aspects of scholastic and co-scholastic activities, the Board had recommended a seven point scale vide this circular [...]

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Based on the feedback received from  the teachers, the Board had issued  Circular No.25/14/07/2009 communicating certain deletions from Unit 4 of the Accountancy syllabus of Class XII, namely, a) Issue of debentures at a discount. b) Writing off of discount on issue of debentures. c) Sinking fund as one of the methods of Redemption of [...]

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Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had launched a new course on Financial Markets Management (FMM) in collaboration with National Stock Exchange (NSE) as joint certification program under vocational education at senior secondary level from the academic session 2007-08. Though, in India, there are about 18.8 crore investors and many more of similar number of [...]

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Schools across the city are using all tools and techniques of the Central Board of School Education’s new evaluation scheme — Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) — in middle classes (classes VI, VII, VIII), to familiarise students with it. The CBSE had implemented the scheme in Class IX last October. This academic year, the scheme [...]

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