Grading experiment at Class-X in CBSE successful, says Sibal

Class-X results in CBSE this year has been better than last year

PTI | June 18, 2010



A year after deciding to introduce grading in Class-X CBSE board exam, HRD minister Kapil Sibal today said the experiment has been "successful" and has paid dividends in making the tests stress free and reducing the rate of suicides among students.

The introduction of grading system and Continuous and Comprehensive Exam (CCE) have proved beneficial for students, he said at the state education ministers conference here.

"There was a lot of misgivings on introduction of Continuous and Comprehensive Exam and our decision for abolition of board exam (from 2011). The grading system has made the exam tension free. The experiment has been successful," Sibal said.

The Class-X results in CBSE this year has been better than last year, he said. While 89.28 per cent students cleared the Class-X test, the pass rate was 88.84 per cent last year.

Sibal took a bold step last year by deciding to abolish Class-X board exam from 2011. Besides, he replaced grades by marks in the Class-X exam in CBSE.

He said the rate of suicide of students due to exam stress has also come down this year.

Sibal appealed to education ministers in states to follow the model and make the exam system more student-friendly.

"I hope state boards will take this experiment forward," he said.

Sibal harped on examination reforms and change in course content at school level. He said the exams should aim at testing raw talents of students.

Comments

 

Other News

Counting matters but which ones?

The first instinct of public policy is to count. Its harder task is to count what counts. We have become remarkably good at measuring the reach of the welfare state vis-à-vis beneficiaries covered, rupees transferred, houses built, connections installed and services delivered. But some of the most

Inching closer to a trade deal with America

The cooperation between India and the United States goes back quite a time. We need to relegate that era to the backburner when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru visited US in the times of president Dwight Eisenhower and called the American let-off of 10 million dollars in defence aid to Pakistan as a “gun w

Manch vs Musk: Forty people and a foreign billionaire

About forty people walked the roundabout on Teen Murti Marg to the gate of Chanakyapuri police station, a distance you could cover in under a minute, on Friday to protest against Elon Musk’s Starlink. The walk was called by the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch. Nobody joined them on the way, and nobody seeme

Master sculptor recalls the making of the Shankaracharya statue

The Golden Chisel: The Story Behind the Making of Ram Lalla  By Seethalakshmi S. and Rahul Nandan Rupa Publications, 168 pages, Rs 395  

Mumbai’s missing affordable homes

Mumbai’s real estate market keeps growing, yet homeownership remains out of reach for much of its population. Three experts – urban researcher Hussain Indorewala, urban planner Vidyadhar Phatak and developer Kamlesh Thakur of NAREDCO Maharashtra, agree that simply constructing more apartments

Rubio denies US foreknowledge of Starlink restrictions in Ukraine

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said he was unfamiliar with the Wall Street Journal report suggesting Elon Musk had decided to throttle Starlink services in Ukraine, but rejected claims that Washington had ordered the restrictions to pressure Kyiv.   “There was no

Upcoming Conferences



-->

Archives

Current Issue

Opinion

Facebook Twitter Google Plus Linkedin Subscribe Newsletter

Twitter