The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has advised the schools to focus on the updated curriculum guidelines.
Recently, CBSE has issued a circular, wherein CBSE has asked principals to ensure that the teachers are following the syllabus as prescribed. As per the circular, CBSE has asked teachers to ‘focus on the curriculum guidelines’ as prescribed by the board at the beginning of the new academic session.
Referring to the previous academic circular CBSE asks all school heads to share the learning objectives.
The reminder also lists out the changes where in CBSE intends to increased the Multiple Choice Questions in the question papers to 20 percent for the theory subjects.
The other changes listed by CBSE circular also includes case based and source based integrated questions. The changes in the curriculum have been recommended is in accordance to CBSE’s shift to the Competency based education or CBSE where the objective is to assess learning outcomes. The teachers have been in turn, advised to ensure that they adapt the required teaching methodology.
As for the syllabus for classes 1 to 8, there are no updates. In the last meeting of teachers, as reported, CBSE officials have stated that the syllabus and curriculum for all the classes 1 to 12 is under advisement and changes would be accordingly made.
The board, sources share, would not be removing chapters but rather snipping out topics to keep the learning objectives in check. The chapters will include the learning objectives as well.