CBSE Class 10 board exams a must from 2018

New Delhi: The CBSE Class 10 board exams are all set to make a comeback after the governing body “unanimously approved” the proposal. After this approval, the Class 10 students, from 2017-18 batch onwards, will take the boards exams which were discontinued in 2010. The decision has been welcomed by the parents and students as they feel that the current credit system is confusing.

As per reports, at the meeting of the governing body, its members agreed that from the academic session 2017-18, compulsory board exams should be introduced for all students of Class 10, sources said.

The decision will now have to be approved by the government before it is implemented. Currently, it is optional for CBSE students to choose either the board exam or a school-based examination.

HRD minister Prakash Javadekar has in the past favoured making board exam compulsory for CBSE students as is the practice in all state boards.

The sources said while there is a view that for the Class 10 board exams, 80 per cent weightage will be given to the marks scored in examinations while 20 per cent weightage will be given to school-based evaluation.

In another key decision, the CBSE has decided to recommend to the HRD ministry that the three language formula, under which Hindi, English and modern Indian language are taught, should be extended to Class 9 and 10 as well from the current Class 6 to 8, a source said.

Officials added that the Board also favoured sending a recommendation to the Centre that those languages which are listed in schedule VIII of the Constitution should be taught under the ‘Three language formula’ while languages which are “purely foreign” should be taught as a “fourth language as an elective subject.”

In the past the HRD ministry run Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV) used to offer German as a third language, but the practice was later discontinued. The final call on these decisions will be taken by the government, a senior official said.