The five-page circular was addressed to all the heads of CBSE affiliated schools. It is sectioned into 5 parts with a detailed explanation of the scheme.

• Special Scheme for 2021-22

The academic session will be divided into two terms with approximately 50% syllabus. The syllabus will have a systematic approach with the interconnectivity of concepts and topics by the Subject Experts. The Board will conduct examinations at the end of each term based on the bifurcated syllabus.

The syllabus will be rationalized similar to that of the last academic session to be notified in July 2021. An effort by the Board will be made for a credible and valid distribution of marks in Internal Assessment/ Practical/ Project work.

• Details of Curriculum Transaction

The school will continue online classes till the authorities permit an in-person mode of teaching in schools. Schools will create a digital student profile retaining all their assessments throughout the year. The Internal Assessment marks will be uploaded on the CBSE IT platform. The guidelines will be released along with syllabus rationalization later in July.

Classes IX-X: Internal Assessment (throughout the year-irrespective of Term I and II) would include the 3 periodic tests, student enrichment, portfolio and practical work/ speaking listening activities/ project.

Classes XI-XII: Internal Assessment (throughout the year-irrespective of Term I and II) would include end of topic or unit tests/ exploratory activities/practicals/ projects.

• Term I Examinations

At the end of the first term, the Term I Examination will be conducted between November-December 2021 with a window period of 4-8 weeks for schools situated in different parts of the country and abroad.

The Question Paper sent by CBSE will have Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) including case-based MCQs and MCQs on the assertion-reasoning type. The duration of the test will be 90 minutes. The exams will be conducted under the supervision of the External Center Superintendents and Observers appointed by CBSE. The responses of students will be captured on OMR sheets. The scanned OMR sheets will be directly uploaded to the CBSE portal and evaluated. The marks obtained will be uploaded by the school on the very same day. Marks of the Term I Examination will contribute to the final overall score of
students.

• Term II Examination/ Year-end Examination

At the end of the second term, Term II or Year-end Examination will be held around March-April 2022 at the examination centres fixed by the Board. The paper will be of 2 hours duration and have questions of different formats (case-based/ situation based, open-ended short answer/ long answer type).
In case the situation is not conducive for normal descriptive examination a 90 minute MCQ based exam will be conducted at the end of Term II also. Marks of the Term II Examination would contribute to the final overall score.

• Assessment / Examination as per different situations

A. In case the situation of the pandemic improves and students can
come to schools or centres for taking the exams. Board plans to conduct Term I and Term II examinations at schools/centres and the theory marks will be distributed equally between the two exams.

B. In case the situation of the pandemic forces complete closure of schools during November-December 2021. The Term-I MCQ based examinations will be conducted online/offline at home but Term-II will be conducted at schools/centres. The weightage will be reduced for the Term I examinations and the weightage of Term II examinations will be increased.

C. In case the situation of the pandemic forces complete closure of schools during March-April 2022. In that case, Term I exams will be held at schools or centres. The weightage of marks of the Term I examination will be increased to provide year-end results of candidates.

D. In case the situation of the pandemic forces complete closure of schools and Board conducted Term I and II exams will be taken by the candidates from home in the session 2021-22. Results would be computed based on the Internal Assessment / Practical /Project Work and Theory marks of Term-I and II exams taken by the candidate from home in Class X / XII.

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Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on June 25 shared a special message for CBSE Board Exam 2021 students. The education minister said that students who are dissatisfied with their Class 10, 12 results can appear for physical exams that would likely be conducted in August if the situation is favourable.

CBSE Board Exam 2021 for Class 10, 12 has been cancelled by the Board due to the rise in COVID19 cases across the country. The Board has framed separate evaluation criteria for Class 10 and Class 12. The evaluation criteria was accepted by the Supreme Court on June 18, 2021, for Class 12. The result will be declared by CBSE by July 31, 2021.

The exam dates and other details of physical exams (if conducted) will be released by the Board in due course of time.

In a major upset, no announcement regarding JEE Main 2021 or NEET 2021 exam dates were made. The message was only to assure the students of the safety and to share the process of CBSE Result 2021 calculation. Lakhs of students are eagerly waiting for the clarity on the pending competitive exams. It may be worthy to point out here that the Education Minister did not conduct a live session. The message was a pre-recorded message for the stduents.
In the recorded message , the Education Minister has shared that the CBSE optional exams may be conducted in August or any other later date, in case situation is conducive. He has also insisted that the safety of the students is paramount to the government.

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Students of Jammu and Kashmir are urging the government to set up examination centres at Srinagar for various Universities like (JNU, DU, JMI and AMU) entrances.

In a statement, the spokesperson of the Association, Nasir Khuehami, said that it is not possible for the students to afford air tickets to travel to other states and appear for exams as most of the them are hailing from marginalised communities.

As the examinations will be conducted from the next month, many students fear contagion, are giving second thoughts to traveling. It is going to be a lot of a hassle for students to travel to Delhi and other places when most of the students are not vaccinated as yet, and there is also a possibility of the third wave happening in the country.

Despite the pandemic, no centre has been allotted to Kashmir by these universities which has left the local students high and dry.

JKSA Secretary Davood Ahmad said: “It will be very inconvenient for the Kashmiri students to travel all the way and spend money on in other states if their examination centres are not arranged locally. This is really hard and grave situation especially for the students belonging to the average income group who can not afford the travel and accommodation expenses.”

He requested LG Sinha to urgently look into the matter and kindly establish alternative exam centre for Kashmiri students in Srinagar for the entrance exam, “otherwise large number of the students may miss the examination if the centre is not set up in Valley.”

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The minister, who was recently hospitalised for post-COVID complications, also updated about his health status saying that he is feeling fine now.

The exams for both class 10 and 12 were cancelled by the CBSE in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. The board has announced its alternative assessment policy for both the classes. While schools have been asked to submit class 10 marks till June 30, the deadline for schools to compile class 12 marks is July 15.

According to the policy for class 12 results, decided by a 13-member panel set up by the board, the theory paper evaluation formula of 30 per cent weightage will be given to class 10 marks, 30 per cent to class 11 marks and 40 per cent weightage to class 12 marks obtained in unit test/mid-term/pre-board examinations.

According to the evaluation criteria announced for class 10 students, while 20 marks for each subject will be for internal assessment as every year, 80 marks will be calculated on basis of the students” performance in various tests or exams throughout the year.

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The examination will only be conducted for the main subjects and the marks obtained by the candidate in this examination will be considered as the final scores.

The affidavit mentioned a ‘Policy for the Tabulation of Marks’ to ensure standardization of marks. The board said it will set a reliable reference standard to internally moderate the marks to account for school-level variations. The variations in the quality of question papers, the evaluation standard, and processes, the mode of conduct of exams, etc will be standardized within the process. “This is necessary for the interest of fairness and to ensure that the marks allocated are comparable and there is no adverse impact or undue gain for any students”, CBSE said.

Also, read CBSE’s new Assessment criteria for Class 12 students.

Additionally, the Supreme court rejected the plea for cancellation of compartment exams for class 12 and against the evaluation scheme by CBSE and CISCE for marking Class 12 students. A special bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari heard the petition on Tuesday and has dismissed the plea seeking cancellation of exams. Senior Advocate Vikas Singh represents the plea on behave of the petitioners.

Supreme court on June 17th, Thursday approved the assessment criteria that were put forward by CBSE and CISCE for Class 12th. The evaluation of 30:30:40 with a 30%-30% weightage of Class 10 and 11 each and a 40% weightage of class 12.

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