- By Sakshi Gupta
- Fri, 05 Apr 2024 03:31 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
CBSE: The Central Board of Secondary Education has changed the format of the year-end examinations for Classes 11 and 12 beginning with the 2024-25 academic session. It has boosted the weightage for competency-based questions by 10% over the previous year while decreasing the weightage for short and long-form responses.
As a result, concept application questions will have a weightage of 50%, up from 40% in the 2023-24 session. For short and long-response questions, the weightage has been reduced to 30%, down from 40% in the prior session.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) issued a notice to all connected institutions on Wednesday (April 3) that reads, “Continuing with its practice of aligning assessment and evaluation with the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in the forthcoming 2024-25 academic session, the percentage of competency-based questions that assess the application of concepts in real-life situations is increased by 10 per cent.”
The board, nonetheless, has made no modifications to the exam pattern for Classes 9 and 10 compared to the previous year. The reforms are being implemented by the NEP, which envisions competency-based learning rather than textbook-driven learning.
The board stated in its letter to the heads of schools that, “The main emphasis of the board was to create an educational ecosystem that would move away from rote memorisation and towards learning that is focused on developing the creative, critical and systems thinking capacities of students to meet the challenges of the 21st century.”