The Summative assessment will be in the form of a pen-paper test conducted by the schools themselves. In order to ensure standardization and to ensure uniformity, the Question Paper Banks in different subjects are being sent by the Board to schools in February 2010. In order to cater to the difference in the pace\u00a0 at which students respond to questions,\u00a0 schools will give flexible timing to students for attempting the question papers. This may vary from 3 to 3\u00bd hours. Evaluation of answer scripts will be done by the school teachers themselves on the basis of the Marking Scheme provided by the Board. There will be random verification of the assessment procedures carried out by schools by the Board officials\/nominees appointed by the Board. It has been decided to provide question paper banks for English Communicative, English Language & Literature, Hindi-A, Hindi-B, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Communicative Sanskrit. In respect of other subjects\/languages, the schools will administer their own question paper based on the sample question paper available on the CBSE\u2019s website, and intimated earlier. In view of the above, the Board will be sending eight CDs.\u00a0 Each CD will contain a number of question papers and one of the question papers is allotted to your school. The schools should conduct the examination in all subjects for Class IX using these question papers between last week of February to last week of March 2010. The marking scheme is being sent to every school separately and will reach the schools well in time. The answer books should be evaluated by the teachers of your school as per the marking scheme containing value points for each question in every question paper. Kindly note that answer books of class \u2013 ix should not be sent to the board under any circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"