CBSE to initiate changes in Class 10th, 12th exam from 2019-20 session

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With an aim to discourage rote learning and develop critical thinking among students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has planned to introduce changes in the examination pattern for Class 10th & 12th from 2019-20 session, Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said on Monday.

The aim is to reduce the education in the number of questions, more internal choices, increase the number of objective type questions and reduction in subjective questions and introduction of internal assessment in all subjects.

“The internal choices will be implemented on 33 per cent of the questions for the students. The one-mark objective type questions will be around 25 per cent of the questions in all subjects. Internal assessment will count for 20 percent marks in subjects in which there is no practical assessment,” the Minister further stated.

The changes will be effected for class 10th and 12th exams which will be held in 2020.

CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Bundle PDF Download for 2020 Board Exams
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Bundle PDF Download for 2020 Board Exams

CBSE Class 10th, 12th Exam 2019-20 likely to get easier with new pattern

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced that it will be introducing changes in the examination pattern of class 10th and 12th from the 2019-20 session in order to develop critical thinking and reasoning ability in the students and discourage the practice of rote learning.

Replying to an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha during the Winter Session, Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said, “The internal choices will be implemented on 33 per cent of the questions for the students. The one-mark objective type questions will be around 25 percent of the questions in all subjects. Internal assessment will count for 20 percent marks in subjects in which there is no practical assessment.”

He was replying to the question raised by MPs Keshari Dev Patel and Chirag Paswan.

The changes that will be introduced to curb the rote learning process are reducing the number of questions, more internal choices, an increase in the number of objective type questions and reduction in subjective questions and introduction of internal assessment in all subjects.

These changes will be introduced in the class 10th and 12th scheduled to be held in 2020.

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