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February 2010 / Times of India / Pune Edition |
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 CBSE to dump semester exams till Class XI
Kolkata: The age-old annual and half-yearly mode of examinations in schools will soon be over. Days after the ministry of human resources development wanted all schools to dump the archaic system and switch over to continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) mode up to Class VIII, the CBSE wants to take it forward. Schools under the CBSE have already introduced the CCE up to Class X replacing the board examination from the 2010-11 session. The board now proposes to extend the new system to Class XI from the coming 2011-12 session. The proposal awaits a goahead from the MHRD.
The entire syllabus will be divided into four schedules. Students have to take class tests including project work and viva that will help teachers to assess the student’s level of understanding. These class tests will be followed by another test spread over a bigger syllabus. The idea is to ensure that students do not learn by rote and some used do during annual and half-yearly examination.
Instead of the old half-yearly and annual system, students will now have to take four ‘formative’ tests, more intensive but based on few chapters, and two ‘summative’ covering half of the lessons taught in class. “We want to introduce a comprehensive assessment system till the candidates appear for their first and only board examinations after class XII. The stress will be more on internal assessment,” said a senior CBSE official. However, the board will set questions for the CCE. This has been proposed to ensure that teachers and students cover the entire syllabus thoroughly, and do not leave to teachers to set questions only on chapters they have covered.
The assessment will be based mainly on the student’s performance in theory chapters though practical and project works will be a part of the assessment. “CCE is a better method to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a student that help him to improve. Teachers also get a feedback on what they taught in the classes. In the old system, there was little such scope because teachers have little to do by the time students sit for the annual examination,” a board official said. In a bid to prepare students for their first board examinations after Class XII, the CBSE wants schools to arrange for pre-board examination that will enable students to write precise answers within time.
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