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New Delhi: Ask Sarvar Bali and she will tell you that the Board exams are no child’s play and this year there is the added pressure of having to attempt a new type of question paper based on the 2005 national curriculum framework.
Sarvar says, “I am prepared, but you never know what question they might ask, so I’m a bit nervous.”
And she’s not the only one. Most of the more than 13 lakh students who are appearing for their Class 10 and Class 12 Boards this year are a bit jittery.
Twenty per cent of the question papers in all subjects from this year on will assess a student’s HOTS — Higher Order Thinking Skills.
These questions will measure a student’s ability to analyse and reason information and essentially use their brains.
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Less than four weeks to go before the Class X and XII board examinations. The students busy with the final rounds of preparation and revision.
But along with the preparation, there builds up the pressure-cooker atmosphere at home and school - especially those of todays competitive teenagers. Teachers and counsellors agree that marks, grades and the glowing ambition to enter an institution of choice to pursue lifetime goals are the top most in the students minds. And very little else.
As the pressure builds up towards D-Day, the students are bound to feel stressed.
Candidates of CBSE X and XII examinations had no problem with the new high order thinking skill (HOTS) questions introduced by the board this year.
The 2008 CBSE exams began today with Class X students writing their IT paper and those in Class XII taking their chemistry test.
The announcement that 20 per cent of the questions would be based on “high order thinking skills” had led to confusion. The new pattern was to measure the students’ ability to reason, analyse and evaluate information in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, political science, history and economics for Class XII, and languages, social
The question paper pattern of Central Board of Secondary Education has been overhauled focussing on objective-type questions for its Class-X and XII examinations with effect from next academic year. The Board also plans to launch grading system for Class-X examinations as soon as it gets the green light from the ministry of human resource development.
For the first time, in 2008, examinees will have to appear for their Board examinations under a new curriculum. At the same time, to maintain a balance between speed and accuracy ~ for students to complete their papers comfortably, the typology and design of the
Over 13 lakh students will appear for the Class X and XII exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Saturday onwards.
While there are 7,65,095 candidates appearing for the Class X exam, 5,48,815 students have registered for the Class XII exam.
The total number of candidates shows an eight per cent increase over last year. Over 12 lakh students had appeared in the exams last year.
About 2,500 physically challenged students will appear in the exams. They include 373 visually challenged students in Class X and 214 such candidates in Class XII.
There will be 2,624 centres for Class X and
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Answer to a marathon debate the Legislative Council on the progress of education, a training school said the minister Vasant Purke provisions of the right to education bill is disadvantaged parents who deprive their children of 'primary school. The penalty may be even detention, he said.
Among other number of measures envisaged by the Government is the introduction of sex education default ninth university the next meeting. However,