The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday announced that the board exams for classes 10th and 12th will be conducted in two different parts from the 2021-2022 academic session.
The first part of the exams will consist of objective questions entirely and the second part will consist of all subjective questions.
The weightage of marks of both the parts, objective and subjective, will be kept equal and the students would be marked on the basis of their performance in both these parts. Furthermore, it would be ensured that there is no overlapping of the syllabus.
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The first term objective exams for class 10th and 12th would be held in November-December 2021. The second term objective exams would be held in March-April 2022.
The total time to finish the objective type exam would be 90 minutes whereas, for the subjective paper, 120 minutes will be given to the students.
"When the situation normalises, the board will conduct the Term I exam in October-November and Term II in February-March and for the full syllabus," a CBSE official told Times of India.
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CBSE also issued a detailed guideline on the pandemic hit academic year on Monday. However, this scheme, according to a senior CBSE official, will continue as the board’s new assessment system.
In another set of guidelines, CBSE explained the management of the newly constructed ways to taking examinations. The term I examinations will be conducted in a flexible manner. The window for wrapping up these exams would be 4-8 weeks, depending on the school's situation and needs. The question paper will have multiple-choice questions with a time limit of 90 minutes and for the pandemic period, it will cover only the rationalised syllabus of Term I.
Term-II examinations will be 120 minutes long and will have subjective questions of different formats.
The responses of students will be captured on OMR sheets, which after scanning may be directly uploaded on the CBSE portal or alternatively uploaded by the school on the very same day.
