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logoGET APP CBSE’s general body meeting proposes reduced syllabus for 2021 exam CBSE’s general body meeting proposes reduced syllabus for 2021 exam ThumbTeam Careers360 27th Jun, 2020 - 4:18 p.m. IST NEW DELHI: At a hurriedly-convened general body meeting (GBM) of the Central Board of Secondary Education, or CBSE, the board decided to consider the highest marks in the best of three subjects for any paper or answer script lost in transit. A principal of a school who did not wish to be named said the usual practice was to consider the average or mean marks of three top subjects. The results of the CBSE board exams are expected to be declared by July 15. The pending CBSE Class 12 exams were cancelled on the order of the Supreme Court on June 25. The GBM also has taken decisions that will have far-reaching consequences for the 2020-21 academic session including reducing the syllabus by 33% and that the schools are free to rationalize their curriculum for class 1 to 8. CBSE board exams 2021 The course material of the board exams 2021 is proposed to be reduced by approximately 33 percent in consultation with the NCERT. Schools will be free to rationalize the curriculum for Classes 1 to 8, on their own. The GBM was assured that the reduced curriculum for Classes 9 to 12 shall be released very shortly, and most probably, before the end of June. As only reduced teaching time is available for the board exams 2021 due of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CBSE proposes to make the question papers consisting of 50 percent concept-based multiple-choice questions and the rest, theory-based. The details will be released shortly.