NEW DELHI, Aug 27:
Starting from the academic year (2010-11), the Class X board exams will become optional in all CBSE schools. The board is likely to make a formal announcement to this effect by Friday.
Accoriding to CBSE sources, on Thursday the board chairman Vineet Joshi, hold the last presentation and consultation session in Madhya Pradesh on the changes which are going to be made. Later the draft will be finalized and will be released to the press for publication.
Irt is reliably learnt that the CBSE has drafted the format of an aptitude exam which schools can use to test Class X students in each subject. The focus is on Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) through the year instead of a main public exam at the end of Class X.
``CBSE has decided to go strongly on making the Class X board exam optional and implement CCE grading system and other alternatives. The process of review of the present Class X exam system is over,'' Joshi told the media