SSC-HSC examination system is changing

SSC and HSC examination assessment system is changing. Separate books for 10th class will be given, based on which the SSC examination will be based on the books read in the class. HSC examination will be taken twice in two years. First students have to take part in the examination at the end of the year on the subjects studied in class XI. Its number will be saved by the respective education boards. Later, the students will take the test again on the subject studied in class XII. It is learned that the results of HSC will be announced by adding the results of class XI and XII.

According to the concerned sources, work has been started to change the curriculum from pre-primary to higher secondary. There are no exams until third grade. From 4th to 7th class, 60 percent marks will be in continuous assessment. In addition, 80 marks in eighth-ninth, 50 per cent in tenth and 30 per cent marks in HSC will come under continuous assessment. After 2012, reforms are coming in the education system again. Earlier in 1995 also this system was changed.

In the light of the proposed curriculum, the curriculum is now being developed up to the seventh grade. Next year, textbooks will be handed over to students in only four classes. There are four classes, first and second and sixth and seventh.

The work of writing the syllabus of these classes will be completed by April 15. Then the textbook writing will start. The introduction of books in the new curriculum will be completed by 2024 up to 10th class and by 2026 up to 12th class. Before that, in 2023, new textbooks will be available in third, fourth, fifth and eighth and ninth classes. Pre-primary education will last for two years from next year.

This year its experimental application is going on in different schools of the country. If the new curriculum is implemented, the weekly leave will be given for two days. At present there is nothing in the syllabus about the final examination of the fifth and eighth classes. Two tests are being conducted by the executive order of the government. It is learned that there is no direction in this regard in the proposed curriculum.

Professor Narayan Chandra Saha, chairman of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB), said students are currently studying according to the curriculum introduced in 2012. Curriculum is refined every five years worldwide. It is part of normal activities considering the needs and realities of the age. As such, the refinement needed to come earlier.

At present, students in the ninth grade are divided into science, humanities and business education, he said. But according to the plan, all students up to tenth class will read the same textbook. Even in these two classes they will get the opportunity of pre-vocational education.