CBSE to Reduce Span of Board Exam Season
- CBSE is contemplating to reduce the board exam season from seven months to four or five weeks.
- They are considering the suggestions from the panel in order to ensure that board exam papers are not leaked.
The panel appointed to look into CBSE board exam leaks and recommend solutions for the same has suggested the board to reduce the exam season in order to maintain integrity. They have recommended that the CBSE board exam duration be reduced from seven weeks to four or five weeks.
CBSE offers 168 subjects in Class 12 exams and 70 subjects in Class 10 subjects and reducing the exam season would mean skimming through the subjects. One of the experts suggested that CBSE should conduct exams for the subject at school levels for which there are few takers, such as music production, fundamentals of nursing, maternal and child health. This would reduce the CBSE exam span to five weeks.
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The panel also made some other suggestions to help CBSE reduce the exam span and eliminate the chances of paper leaks. Check out the suggestions made below.
Recommendations made by the Panel to CBSE:
- The panel suggested that all CBSE board exam question papers be doubly encrypted and printed at the exam centre with different watermarks for different centres.
- To help make this possible, the panel said that facilities will be provided to the exam centre to print papers and keep them safe.
- The panel also added that different watermarks will enable the authorities to track paper leaks easily back to the schools from where the illegal activities started.
- CBSE has also been advised to offer baskets of subjects instead of numerous individual subjects. ICSE and IB are amongst the boards that offer 30 to 35 subjects.
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After the incidents of CBSE class 10 mathematics paper leak and class 12 economics paper leak, the Central Government became concerned about the sanctity of the board exams. Therefore HRD Ministry had appointed the panel to review all points of security breach in the CBSE exam system to eliminate the chances of exam paper leak during board exams.