In a notification issued on Monday, the Board also announced that the syllabus for the year will be rationalized on the lines of what was carried out in the last academic year, when the curriculum was minimized by 30%. The rationalized curriculum will be divided in half across the two terms.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has come out with a prepare for Class 10 and 12 Board examinations for scholastic year 2021-2022. Rather of one Board test at the end of the year, the scholastic session has actually been bifurcated into two terms, with the Board performing examinations at the end of each.

Term I tests are to be held in November-December 2021, and will have Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) covering just the very first half of the rationalised curriculum. These tests will be of 90-minute duration. The Board will send the question documents and the marking plans to schools, which will carry out the examinations under the supervision of external examiners and observers, and send out the results to the Board.

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Term II tests are to be held in March-April 2022 at examination centres repaired by the Board. These tests will be two-hour-long documents with concerns in various formats, but “in case the scenario is not conducive for normal descriptive assessments”, Term II tests too will remain in the kind of 90-minute MCQ papers.

While the results of both the term-end exams will contribute to the final total score, the Board has produced a basket of four options depending on the Covid scenario.

The four situations:

1) If both the term-end tests can be held at the centres, theory marks will be dispersed uniformly in between both examinations.

2) If schools have to be closed at the time of Term I examinations and students need to compose the exams offline or online from their houses, however Term II tests can be held at the centres, “the weightage of [Term I] examination for the final rating would be decreased, and weightage of Term II examinations will be increased for declaration of result”.

3) If it is the other method around– Term I tests are held in school, but Term II tests cant be held at the centre and students take it offline or online– “outcomes would be based upon the efficiency of trainees on Term I MCQ-based assessment and internal assessments. The weightage of marks of Term I evaluation … will be increased to supply year-end outcomes”.

4) If neither of the tests can be held at centres or schools, the outcomes will be computed on the basis of internal assessments and practicals, and theory marks of Term I and II examinations taken by the trainees from home “subject to the moderation or other procedures to ensure credibility and reliability of the assessment”.

Term I exams are to be held in November-December 2021, and will have Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) covering just the very first half of the rationalised curriculum. These tests will be of 90-minute duration. The Board will send the concern documents and the marking plans to schools, which will perform the tests under the guidance of external inspectors and observers, and send the results to the Board.

For academic year 2020-2021, the Board had tried to continue with its existing last evaluation system but needed to ultimately cancel the examinations for both Class 10 and 12 and is presently computing the results of students based upon evaluations carried out earlier, useful exams and internal evaluations.

In a circular to heads of all CBSE-affiliated schools, Director (Academics) Joseph Emmanuel wrote that the experience of the past year “demanded considerations over alternative ways to take a look at the knowing goals as well as the conduct of the Board Examinations for the scholastic session 2021-22 in case the circumstance stays impractical”.