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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that class 10 and 12 students will get the option to appear for board exams twice a year from the academic session 2025-26. The minister said that this step has been taken to reduce academic stress.
India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 envisages biennial board examinations to provide ample opportunities to students to excel academically.
According to the new curriculum framework (NCF) announced by the Education Ministry in August last year, board exams will be conducted at least twice a year to ensure students have adequate time and opportunity to perform well. They will also get the option to retain the best score.
Pradhan asked the students present at the function if they were happy with the decision, and asked them to keep the best marks they had obtained after appearing in both the examinations.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji’s vision through NEP is to keep students stress-free, enrich them with quality education, keep students connected with culture and prepare them for the future. It aims to make India a developed country by 2047. There is a formula.” He said.
The new system of board exams twice a year for classes 10th and 12th is not mandatory.
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The Education Minister was speaking at a program in Chhattisgarh. The Union Minister on Monday launched the PM Shri (Prime Minister School for Rising India) scheme in Chhattisgarh, under which 211 schools in the state will be upgraded.
In the first phase of PM Shri Yojana, 211 schools (193 elementary level and 18 secondary) in Chhattisgarh will be upgraded on ‘hub and spoke’ model. Rs 2 crore on each of them, the Union Minister said.
Under the model, the mentor institution, called the ‘hub’, will be centralized and will have the responsibility of guiding the mentee institution through secondary branches of ‘spokes’, through services provided to the mentee for self-improvement .
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Pradhan said, as per the request of Chhattisgarh School and Higher Education Minister Brijmohan Agarwal, more secondary and higher secondary schools will be included in the next phase of the scheme.
Class 10 and Class 12 board exams 2024 begin
Meanwhile, Class 10 and 12 examinations for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) began on February 15 across the country and 26 other countries.
According to CBSE, this year more than 39 lakh students from India and 26 other countries will appear for the exam.
Class 10 board exams will end on March 13, 2024, and Class 12 board exams will end on April 2.
In 2023, a total of 38.82 lakh students appeared in the Class 10 and Class 12 board exams.
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Published: 20 February 2024, 10:05 am IST
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