17.7 lakh students, both from Class X and Class XII, are set to take up CBSE board exams

Updated on: Friday, February 22, 2013

Beginning from March 1, totally 17.7 lakh students, both from Class X and Class XII, are set to take up CBSE board exams.

Roughly 60% of the Class XII students will take their first-ever common exam, as this is the first batch that got the option to skip the Class X Boards in 2011 for the school-based test.

According to sources of Central Board of Secondary Education, a total of 9.42 lakh students will appear for the Class XII Boards, an increase of over a lakh from 2012.

For the first time, Class XII students will be answering value-based questions of 3-5 marks each in 15 major subjects across the streams.

The subjects include English, Hindi, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, accountancy, history, geography, business studies, entrepreneurship and economics.

The questions, to be interdisciplinary in nature, will be for 5 marks in a 100-mark paper and 3-4 marks in a question paper of 70 marks.

A senior faculty member of Environmental Science studies at JNU who is helping students of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 2, RK Puram, prepare for such questions revealed that such questions will be more about application of theoretical knowledge in daily life situation to probe human values and environmental awareness.

17.7 lakh students, both from Class X and Class XII, are set to take up CBSE board exams

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