Prep Up! Your Board Exams May Now Be Held in Feb, Not March

The CBSE is planning to prepone the Class XII & X board examinations to February to make evaluation “error free”.

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is planning to prepone the Class XII and Class X board examinations to February with effect from next year in order to streamline the process of evaluation and make it "error-free", as indicated by CBSE chairperson RK Chaturvedi.

The duration of the examination would also be shortened from 45 days to a month.

A report in Times of India quoted Chaturvedi as saying,

The examinations should start around 15 February and we are also planning to complete them within a month.

RK Chaturvedi, CBSE chairperson

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Under the present schedule, the exams are held from March beginning and go on till around mid-April.

According to him, this has been done to ensure the availability of "experienced teachers", who, under the current schedule, "don't oblige" during summer vacations, which results in getting only "ad-hoc and newly-appointed teachers" for the evaluation.

Moreover, training sessions are also being planned for the evaluators under the new system.

Officials reiterated that since students go on preparatory leave from January, they would not be inconvenienced by it. Chaturvedi further remarked on how this preponement would ease the college admission process.

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The move comes as CBSE set up two committees on Tuesday to study the loopholes in the evaluation procedure, coming in the context of complaints by students about evaluation “faults” in their Class XII results.

Amid these complaints of faults in the evaluation process, the CBSE had on Monday admitted that “in spite of best efforts made by the experienced subject teachers, there may be possibility of human error in transferring marks to the title page of the answer scripts, summation of marks and manual posting of marks in the computer system”.

It had, however, said that it had received requests for verification of marks from only 2.47 per cent of the students.

According to the CBSE, the percentage of students applying for verification of marks in 2014, 2015 and 2016 was 2.31, 2.09 and 2.53 respectively.

On the issue of re-evaluation, Chaturvedi indicated that it would be done away with, citing certain reasons, including low number of students re-applying, low availability of experienced teachers during the period, and how it results in postponing admissions and compartment examinations.

(With inputs from PTI)

(Source: Times of India, Hindustan Times)

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