Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced its decision to conduct CBSE Class 10, 12 Board Exams 2022 in a new pattern.
According to CBSE, CBSE Class 10, 12 Board Exams 2022 will be held in two terms and each term will cover 50 per cent of the syllabus. The CBSE has announced that term I will be held in November-December, while term II will be conducted in March-April. The CBSE has also modified the pattern of the exam for each term.
In term I, there will be multiple choice questions including case-based MCQs and assertion-reasoning type MCQs. The duration of term I will be 90 minutes. The term II will have questions in different formats including case-based, situation-based, open-ended questions. The term II will have short and long answer type questions and the duration of term II will be two hours. But if the Covid-19 pandemic continues then term II will be held MCQ-based papers for 90 minutes.
The exam pattern has been changed to make it more “student-centric, transparent, technology-driven, and advance provision of alternatives for different future scenarios”, the CBSE had said.
It is to be noted that external centre superintendents and observers will supervise the CBSE Class 10, 12 Board Exams 2022. The observers will be appointed by CBSE. OMR sheets will capture the responses of students and these sheets will be scanned and directly uploaded at CBSE portal.
The CBSE is expected to direct the schools to take steps aimed at making the internal assessments and projects more credible and valid. For classes 9 to 10, there will be three periodic tests, a student enrichment portfolio, practical work, and speaking listening activities. For classes 11 and 12, there will be unit tests at end of every topic, exploratory activities, practicals, and projects.
The CBSE has also announced that it will rationalise the syllabus for CBSE Class 10, 12 Board Exams 2022 similar to that of the last academic session.
The final results would be prepared by the CBSE on the basis of the internal assessment, practical, project work and theory marks of both the term exams.
