Online Registration Date Extended for CBSE Proficiency Test 2013

Last date of online registration for CBSE Proficiency Test 2013 has been extended to December 31, 2012. This is an optional test for students studying in class 10. It will be conducted in the month of April, 2013 as per the following schedule.

Monday 8th April, 2013 English

Tuesday 9th April, 2013 Hindi

Wednesday 10th April, 2013 Mathematics

Thursday 11th April, 2013 Social Science

Friday 12th April, 2013 Science

It will be conducted in all the five main subjects studied by a student in class-X. However, a student may appear in one or more subjects depending upon his/her choice. There will be a separate test in every subject One test will be held on a single day.

It will be a paper-pen test to be administered on the same day across all willing schools in the country. Students wishing to appear in the test will be required to pay separate examination fee for the same. The amount of fee to be paid by a student is as under:

One subject Rs. Three hundred only

Two subjects Rs. Four hundred only

Three subjects Rs. Five hundred only

Four or five subjects Rs. Six hundred only

The registration fee has to be submitted in the form of a Demand Draft in favour of Secretary CBSE, Delhi payable at Delhi.

Any student studying in class-X in a secondary or senior secondary school affiliated to CBSE and appearing in March, 2013 final examination (School conducted or Board Conducted) is eligible to appear in this test.

Every student appearing in the test will be issued a certificate by the Board indicating percentile rank.

Format of the Question Paper

All questions will be of multiple choice type with only single correct answer. A student will be required to mark the answers on a given OMR sheet. Question paper in every subject will carry 100 marks. The duration of the test in every subject will be 2½ hours. The test will be based on classes IX-X syllabus in the subject prescribed by CBSE. The questions included in the question paper will be of varying difficulty level.

The typology of questions will be different from the type of questions asked in conventional final examination conducted by the Board at the end of Class-X. The test will not include any direct recall, information-based or memory –based questions. It will only include questions to assess students’ skills and abilities to apply understanding of concepts to analyse a given situation or an unfamiliar everyday life problem.

Negative marks will be awarded for wrong answers. More than one answer indicated against a question will also be deemed as incorrect response and will be negatively marked. The willing schools are required to submit the related information to the Board through online filling up of the registration form available on CBSE website www.cbse.nic.in. Procedure for online submission of List of candidates shall be available on the website shortly. The last date for submitting the online information was 30th November,2012 now it is 31 December 2012. The print out of filled in online registration form (Hard copy) duly signed and attested by the Principal of the school along with the registration fee in the form of a draft in favour of Secretary CBSE, Delhi payable at Delhi ,may be submitted to the Director (Special Exams and CTET), Central Board of Secondary Education, A-1, Swasthya Vihar, Vikas Marg, (Opp. Metro Pillar-76), New Delhi-110 092 by 15th December, 2012. The following salient points for taking the tests may be taken note of:

a) Only those students are allowed to take the proposed test (s)who have applied through the schools and paid requisite fee.

b) A student will have to appear from the same city/place where his/her school is located. .The examination will be conducted only at pre-decided centres as per Class-X Board examination.

c) The timings of the test will be from 10.30 A.M. to 1.00 P.M. in every subject.

Source: http://www.cbseacademic.in/