No Class 10 board exams in CBSE from 2011: Sibal

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a significant step aimed at reforming the educational system in India, the Central Government on Monday announced the Standard X examinations, held under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), will become optional from the 2010-11 session. Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal told a press conference here that the Class X examination will become optional from the 2010-11 session.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There would be no Class 10 public exams for Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliated schools from 2011 and a grading system would be introduced from the current academic session, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal announced Monday. The minister told reporters here that board exams would be held as usual this academic year, but a grading system would be introduced along with the prevalent marks system.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will divide the Class 10 into two semesters, as in management and engineering colleges, to make the evaluation process easier and smoother after board exams are scrapped from 2011. Once the examination is scrapped from 2011, we will divide the year into two terms - they are like two semesters (April to September, and October to March), a senior CBSE official told IANS Monday.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will scrap its Class 10 Board exams from 2011 and introduce in its place a nine-point grading system, it was announced Monday. The decision drew mixed response from students, child specialists and school administrators.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will scrap its Class 10 Board examination from 2011 and introduce in its place a grading system, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Monday. There will be no Class 10 board examination from 2011, Sibal told reporters here.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Government on Monday announced that it will introduce grading system in all Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools and make Class X board exams optional from coming academic year (2010-11). Union Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal, during a press conference in the national capital, said: "Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) supports making Class X examination optional in CBSE system." "There is a pan-India consensus over the issue.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - From the current academic year, the tens of thousands of students studying in Class 10 need not burn the midnight oil or get stressed over the board exams -- the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 examination has been made optional. Making this announcement here late Monday evening, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters: "The CBSE Class 10 exams are optional from the 2009-10 academic year." I have said this earlier too," Sibal said after the 56th meeting of the Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE) here, attended by education ministers and officials from states.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Much before Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal aired his views, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had plans to make Class 10 board exams optional, parliament was told Monday. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) - 2005 has recommended that the board should consider, as a long term measure, making the class 10 examination optional, thus permitting students to continue in the same school, Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) D.

July 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal says foreign universities like Harvard were welcome in India. He also clarified that the ministry wished to abolish the Class 10 board exams of only the central and not the state boards.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Friday announced the results of the Class 10 board examination for the Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad regions. Anxious students and parents made a beeline to cyber cafes as the results were uploaded on the CBSE website www.cbse.nic.in.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Girls have once again outperformed boys in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 board exams, the results of which were declared Friday in the three zones of Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad. The pass percentage of girls was 85.94 percent, as compared to 77.40 percent for boys, the CBSE spokesperson said.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Eleven disabled students were among 15,839 children who secured above 90 percent in class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams. According to CBSE spokesperson Rama Sharma, a total of 1,034 students with disability - 225 blind, 35 deaf, 564 physically handicapped, 12 spastic children and 225 students with dyslexia - appeared for the class 12 exams this year.

February 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Over 1.45 million students will sit for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations starting March 2 at over 5,000 centres spread across the country and abroad, an official release said here Friday. This year, 824,438 students of class 10 and 637,578 of class 12, will take the board exams, a CBSE release said.

January 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - To help students overcome anxiety and stress during board exams, several helpline numbers of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will start functioning Sunday. As a part of the board's outreach programme this year, it will start telephonic counselling, question-answer columns in newspapers, interactive voice response system (IVRS) and online counselling through the CBSE website.

December 25th, 2008 NEW DELHI - The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Friday announced the examination schedule for the Classes 10 and 12 board exams that will begin March 2 next year. For Class 10, the examinations will start with elementary business among four other optional subjects.