CBSE is not going to conduct an external examination for class 10 students from March 2013 onwards. The students studying in class 10 in the academic session 2012-13 will have to sit in school based internal examination only.
\nThe continuous and\u00a0comprehensive\u00a0evaluation\u00a0(CCE) was introduced by the CBSE last year, which made the board\u00a0examinations\u00a0optional. This was a move to unburden\u00a0students\u00a0from board exam pressure. It also had an option for\u00a0students\u00a0to choose among school based programme or board exams. However, from 2012-13, the CBSE has decided to completely replace board exams with school based exams by making it compulsory for all.<\/p>\n
Astonishingly, very few\u00a0students\u00a0opted for the school-based\u00a0examinations conducted in March 2011. More than 90%\u00a0students\u00a0in\u00a0Andhra Pradesh\u00a0opted for Board exams. At the national level as well, the response was very poor. Around 6 lakh\u00a0students\u00a0opted for Board exams out of a total of 9 lakh.
\nThe reason behind this poor response was the apprehensions among parents and students\u00a0regarding the credibility of school exams compared to those conducted by CBSE. However, this year with about 40%\u00a0students\u00a0in Andhra opting for school-based exams, the response has been definitely better.
\nA senior CBSE official said that they will analyze the result of both school-based and board exams for the year 2012 and post the same on their website. This will help students, parents and school managements to observe\u00a0the difference\u00a0and the pass percentages between these exams. He further mentioned that there was not much difference in the pass percentages, last year too.
\nCBSE will randomly verify evaluated\u00a0answer sheets, to ensure that\u00a0evaluation\u00a0has been fair. And it has also decided to supply\u00a0question papers\u00a0for school-based exams and only the\u00a0evaluation\u00a0part will be done at school-level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"