Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said Class 10th & 12th students will be allowed to appear for board examinations twice a year from the academic session 2025-26! The education minister said the move had been made to reduce academic stress & division of syllabus.
Bi Annual Board Exams:
India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 envisions bi-annual 6-month board exams to provide students with ample opportunities to excel academically. The marks from both exams will not be added. Instead, the higher marks of subjects from both exams will be added together to make a higher total!
According to the New Curriculum Framework (NCF) announced by the Ministry of Education in August 2023, board examinations will be held at least twice a year to ensure students have enough time & opportunity to perform well. They will also be able to retain the best score out of two exams. Along with this, they will be dropping the number system & adding a grading system to reduce the burden on students
Pradhan asked students present at the function if they were happy with the decision, & told them to keep the best marks obtained after appearing in both exams, which is probably the best decision & benefit of the Bi annual board exams.
PM Modi’s Vision:
Education Minister further stated, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji’s vision through the NEP is to keep students stress-free, enrich them with quality education, keep students linked with culture and prepare them for the future. This is the formula for making India a developed country by 2047.”
But Note: that the new system of twice-a-year board exams for Class 10th & Class 12th is not compulsory for students
PM SHRI Scheme:
The education minister was speaking about this bill at an event in Chhattisgarh. On Monday, the union minister launched the PM SHRI (Prime Minister Schools for Rising India) scheme in Chhattisgarh state, under which the state government will upgrade 211 schools.
In the first phase of the PM SHRI scheme, 211 schools (193 elementary level & 18 secondary ones) will be upgraded in Chhattisgarh on a ‘hub & spoke’ model by spending ₹2 crore on each of them, added Education Minister
Under the model, the mentor institution called the ‘hub,’ will be centralized & have the responsibility of guiding the mentee institution through the secondary branches, the ‘spoke,’ via services provided to the mentee for self-improvement.
Chhattisgarh’s School & Higher Education Minister Brijmohan Agrawal made a special request that more secondary & higher secondary schools will be covered under the scheme in its next phases.
In 2023, as per data, a total of 38.82 lakh students appeared for Class 10 & Class 12 board exams
Meanwhile, the class 10 & 12 exams for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) i.e., National Education Board of India, began on 15 February across the country & 26 other countries.
As per data by CBSE, this year, more than 39+ lakh students from India & 26+ other countries will take the exam.
Conclusion:
The board examinations for Class 10 will conclude on March 13, 2024, and the Class 12 board exams will finish on April 2! Should we bring two board exams a year to reduce burdens on students?
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