New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has revamped its assessment scheme for the year 2024 for the 10th and 12th board exams. The board introduced Multiple Choice Questions and reduced the weightage for short-answer and long-answer questions, PTI reported citing officials.
Officials reasoned that the move is to progressively align assessment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 recommendations.
However, the change will be restricted to the 2023-24 academic session since the board exams are going to be reformed the year after, introducing the new National Curriculum Framework (NCF).
Director of CBSE (Acadmics) Joseph Emanuel said, "The National Education Policy, 2020, has affirmed the need to move from rote learning to learning more focused on developing the creative and critical thinking capacities of students to meet the challenges of the 21st century proactively. The board is initiating changes in the examination and assessment practices for the academic session 2023-24 to align assessment to Competency Focused Education."
"Therefore, in the forthcoming session, a greater number of Competency Based Questions or questions that assess the application of concepts in real-life situations will be part of the question paper," he added.
In class 10, 50 per cent of questions will be competency-based in the form of MCQs, case-based questions, source-based integrated questions or any other type. The weightage for such questions in the last academic session was 40 per cent.
The objective questions will now necessarily be MCQs with 20 per cent weightage.
The weightage for short-answer and long-answer-type questions has been reduced to 30 per cent from 40 per cent last year.
Similarly, in class 12, 40 per cent of the questions will be competency focused in the form of MCQs, case-cased questions, source-based integrated questions or any other type.
The weightage for such questions in the last academic session was 30 per cent.
In class 12 also, the objective-type questions will be MCQs with 20 per cent weightage. Short-answer and long-answer type questions will have weightage reduced to 40 per cent from 50 per cent the previous year.