CBSE – Central Board of Secondary Education

The CBSE was given its present name ‘Central Board of Secondary Education’s in the year 1952. The Board was reconstituted in the year 1962 when its jurisdiction was extended. Education being a subject on the concurrent list of Indian constitution – most of the states also have their own educational boards with different curriculum.

CBSE – An Overview

History

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) was formed officially in 1962 with the sole purpose to make a common standard and platform for every student in the country. From only 302 affiliated schools in 1962, CBSE is today affiliated with a whooping approximately 21,500 plus schools in India and 220 schools in 28 foreign countries. CBSE in all these years has set a good standard of education in India. With its influential educational policies, CBSE has reformed the education system of the country.

Objectives

The mail objectives of CBSE are:-

• To define appropriate approaches of academic activities to provide stress free, child centered and holistic education to all children without compromising on quality
• To analyze and monitor the quality of academic activities by collecting the feedback from different stakeholders
• To develop norms for implementation of various academic activities including quality issues; to control and coordinate the implementation of various academic and training programs of the Board; to organize academic activities and to supervise other agencies involved in the process
• To adapt and innovate methods to achieve academic excellence in conformity with psychological, pedagogical and social principles.
• To encourage schools to document the progress of students in a teacher and student friendly way
• To propose plans to achieve quality benchmarks in school education consistent with the National goals
• To organize various capacity building and empowerment programs to update the professional competency of teachers
• To prescribe conditions of examinations and conduct public examination at the end of Class X and XII. To grant qualifying certificates to successful candidates of the affiliated schools.
• To fulfill the educational requirements of those students whose parents were employed in transferable jobs
• To prescribe and update the course of instructions of examinations
• To affiliate institutions for the purpose of examination and raise the academic standards of the country.

Affiliations

The Board grants affiliation to Schools up to higher secondary level and develops common curriculum keeping nationwide requirements in focus. The affiliation is considered as a prestigious recognition as it requires the schools to follow rigid quality standards.

The CBSE affiliation is internationally accepted. The CBSE carries out continuous research and development for the advancement of the academic standards in the country. It has recently introduced the Grading system based on continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE).

The prime focus of the Board is on

• Innovations in teaching-learning methodologies by devising students friendly and students centred paradigms.
• Reforms in examinations and evaluation practices.

• Skill learning by adding job-oriented and job-linked inputs.
• Regularly updating the pedagogical skills of the teachers and administrators by conducting in service training programs, workshops etc.

Examinations

CBSE conducts the final examinations for Class 10 and Class 12 every year in the month of March. The results are announced by the end of May. The board earlier conducted the AIEEE Examination for admission to undergraduate courses in engineering and architecture in colleges across India. However, the AIEEE exam was merged with the IIT-Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) in 2013. The common examination is now called JEE (Main) and is henceforth conducted by National Testing Agency.

CBSE also conducts AIPMT (All India Pre Medical Test) for admission to major medical colleges in India. In 2014, the conduct of the National Eligibility Test for grant of a junior research fellowship and eligibility for assistant professor in institutions of higher learning was outsourced to CBSE. Apart from these tests, CBSE also conducts the Central Teacher Eligibility Test and the Class X optional proficiency test. With the addition of NET in 2014, the CBSE has become the largest exam conducting body in the world.

On 10 November 2017, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared a proposal for the creation of a National Testing Agency (NTA) serving as the premier autonomous body for conducting entrance examinations in the country. Beginning in 2018 various exams previously conducted by the CBSE were transferred to the NTA including National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), Joint Entrance Examination – Main, National Eligibility Test, Central Universities Common Entrance Test and others.

CBSE RESULTS CLASS XII – 2019/2020 COMPARISON

CBSE RESULTS CLASS X – 2019/2020 COMPARISON