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The plan to introduce the semester system has been rejected. (file photo)
Sources said the ministry and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will hold consultations with school principals next month on conducting board exams twice a year.
According to sources, the Education Ministry has asked CBSE to prepare logistics to conduct board exams twice a year from the 2025-26 academic session.
He said the plan to introduce the semester system has been rejected.
Sources said the ministry and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will hold consultations with school principals next month on conducting board exams twice a year.
He said CBSE is currently working on how the academic calendar will be structured to accommodate another set of board exams without affecting the undergraduate admission schedule.
“The ministry has asked CBSE to work out how board exams will be conducted twice a year. The board is working out the modalities and a consultation will be held with school principals next month,” said a source.
“The idea of conducting two editions of year-end board exams from the 2025-26 academic session is being explored, but the modalities still need to be worked out. However, there are no plans to implement the semester system,” the source said.
The ministry’s initial plan was to start biennial board exams from the 2024-25 academic session, however, it has been pushed back by a year.
The new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) prepared by the Central Government-appointed National Steering Company headed by former ISRO Chairman K Kasturirangan in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has proposed a semester system for Class 11 students. Is kept. 12.
The framework released by the ministry in August last year also proposed that students be given the option to take their board exams twice a year.
“CBSE is currently brainstorming on the schedule so that students can get maximum benefit and achieve the goal of making the board exams stress-free. However, logistics is a challenge that needs to be addressed, conducting the exams is tedious so the planning must be impeccable,” the source said.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had told PTI in an interview last October that it would not be mandatory for students to take board exams twice a year.
“Students will have the option to appear for the exam (class 10 and 12 boards) twice a year, like the engineering entrance exam JEE. They can choose the best score… but it will be completely optional, there will be no compulsion,” he had said.
However, this is not the first attempt to reform the board exams. Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) was introduced for Class 10 in 2009, but it was canceled in 2017 and the board reverted to the old model of year-end exams.
Class 10 and 12 board exams were also divided into two phases during the Covid pandemic as a one-time measure, but the old format of year-end exams resumed this year.
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