CBSE answer to Maths Scare

CBSE answer to Maths Scare

Two more chances if you fail – and a way out too

New Delhi: Scared of mathematics? Now, you have a way out beginning the 2007 examination.

The Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) has finalized a policy for the Class X Board exam that makes maths kinder and gentler via three key decisions:

Introduction of maths laboratories, which will, makes for 20 percent of the final marks. This will be an internal assessment by the school, in the presence of Board officials, based on activities through out Class IX and X.

Granting a total or five compartment chances as opposed to the existing three.

And, in what will be good spooked by numbers, if a student fails in his / her second attempt, he / she has a choice of dropping the subject altogether and take another exam in a ‘sixth subject’ in lieu of the maths test.

As of now, the norm in the CBSE is to take the five mandatory subjects: Maths, Social Science, Science & Technology, English and a language.

The decision, taken by the governing body of the Board recently, is being seen as a way out to remove the Maths hurdle without waving its requirement.

“We are working on the understanding that Maths is a compulsory subject at the secondary level as suggested by the National Curriculum Framework 2005. But we are trying to introduce some flexibility and a way out for those who cannot do well in it, yet want to do well in life. Asking these students to first cross the hurdle in Maths and then think of further progress in life is absurd.

Thus, this policy,” CBSE chairman Ashok Ganguly told ‘Express.’

The first compartment exam will be held in July, the second in March the next year, the third in July the following year.

For those students who choose to drop Maths after their second attempt, the Board is willing to let the candidate take a subject he/she might not even have studied in Class X.

“Students who fail the first compulsory Board exam and the Compartment in July can opt for another subject. There will be scope for extended learning, that is, if the student has not learnt the chosen subject but has completed extended learning by himself. we will encourage and provide flexibility to such a student. He can then take the exam in March,” said Ganguly.

What about those students who already taken six subjects in the CBSE board examination and have passed in all except Maths

“We are working on an alternative for them as well,” said Ganguly.

CBSE answer to Maths Scare

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