The Single Girl Child Scholarship scheme was introduced by the CBSE in the year 2006.
Accordingly, the CBSE initiated Competency Focused Education and Assessment in its affiliated schools and recently released practice papers in all major subjects of Classes 10 and 12.
The CBSE has also released a list of categories of students who are eligible. As per official sources, the CBSE will hold the examinations for private candidates in the month of February/ March/ April 2024 along with the Board’s Main Examinations.
A fresh directive has been issued as it has been observed that schools and students are not careful and submitting the wrong data. This creates problems if the wrong demographic details of students are filled in.
As per the latest notification, CBSE informed that it has released a comprehensive document, ‘Framework and significant guidelines in the context of the secondary and senior secondary certificate examinations for the guidance of the schools.’
During this period of three years, the schools have been asked to re-align the students’ strength to 40 students per section.
In a letter to its affiliated schools, the CBSE has urged the principals to remain alert to such malpractices and ensure the preservation of the sanctity of the education ecosystem.
Senior CBSE officials in a statement said that the exams will be conducted over a period of 55 days (approximately). The examinations are likely to conclude by April 10, 2024.
The practical exams are required to be conducted as per the provisions of the scheme of studies/ examination bye-laws for the following two categories of students:
The CBSE, in its previous circular issued in January 2019, had stated about the issue of ‘introduction of two levels of mathematics for All India Secondary School Examination from the academic session ending March 2020 onwards.’
In a bid to assist students to overcome common psychological problems related to exams and results, the CBSE has started 'post-result annual psychological counselling' from Saturday.
After releasing the results, the CBSE has now released the modalities and schedule for the verification of marks, obtaining (scanned) photocopy of evaluated answersheets and re-evaluation of answers.
As per official sources, the overall pass percentage went down by 1.28 percent compared to last year. A total of 93.12 percent of students passed the Class 10 examination this year.
There has been sharp drop of 5.38 per cent in the overall pass percentage of students this year. The overall pass percentage in 2022 was 92.71 per cent.
The CBSE had introduced Art-integrated learning in all its affiliated schools in 2019 as a pedagogical initiative.
If media reports are to be believed, then the results of class 10 and 12 Board examinations are expected to be announced in April end.
At the heart of the row is the fact that while the changes made as part of the rationalisation exercise were notified, some of these controversial deletions weren't mentioned in them.
This year the board exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) commenced from February 14. While the Class 10 exam continued till March 21, the Class 12 exam concluded on April 5.
NEP gives a lot of emphasis on promoting Skill education in schools. Apart from this, it also aims at overcoming the social status hierarchy associated with vocational education and stresses on the integration of vocational education programmes into mainstream education in all educational institutions in a phased manner.
CBSE has set up 16 Centres of Excellence in different parts of the country. These Centres of Excellence focus on In-service Training of teachers of all CBSE-affiliated schools.