The CBSE will be issuing new internal assessment guidelines later this month for classes 10 and 12 students as part of its revised assessment scheme for the academic year 2021-2022.
The Central Board of Secondary education (CBSE) announced that starting 2022 will be moving away from the system of conducting one board exam at the end of the year and has instead divided the year into two academic terms with board conducted examinations the end of each term. It has also created a basket of four options on the computation of CBSE results depending on four different possible scenarios because of the COVID-19 situation.
The board was pushed into introducing such changes this year as it was unable to continue with its regular examination system and had to cancel board exams of both Class 10 and 12.
The board has also stated that “Efforts will be made to make Internal Assessment/ Practical/ Project work more credible and valid as per the guidelines and Moderation Policy to be announced by the Board to ensure fair distribution of marks”.
For the academic session 2020-21, internal assessment and in-school exams ended up becoming the most crucial element for assessing Class 10, 12 students, and it will be crucial in 2021-22 as well if the board is unable to conduct either of the two-term exams at the centres owing to rise in cases.
“The attempt is to introduce a credible system of continuous assessment throughout the year, which is also more in line with the NEP,” said a CBSE official.
According to the new assessment scheme, internal assessment throughout the year for classes 9 and 10 will comprise 3 periodic tests, ‘student enrichment, portfolio and practical work/speaking listening activities/ project’, and for classes 11 and 12 will include ‘end of topic or unit tests/ exploratory activities/ practicals/ projects’. Schools will have to create a student profile for all assessment conducted throughout the year.
The board's complete guidelines for this system of internal assessment will be released when it releases the rationalised term wise syllabus sometime this month.
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