CBSE plans monthly evaluation system for Class X students

Once the Class X board exam becomes optional across some 10,000 CBSE schools in the country,there will be a Comprehensive and Continued Evaluation CCE system in its place. While passing a three-hour ordeal in the form of a Board exam will be passé,students will be evaluated on a monthly basis. Every month,each Class X student will be put through varied forms of CCE formats and not just a monthly written test. Group discussions,projects and a variety of new evaluation formats will be introduced across CBSE schools as part of the CCE which will also decrease the 100 per cent weightage given to the year-end exams.

Through the CCE,students will be evaluated internally in schools on a monthly basis. This need not be a written test and can be a project or group discussion as per the discretion of the school and teachers. There will be CBSE prescribed procedures and formats for holding these varied CCE formats. Along with the CCE,there will be the usual end of the year exam covering the whole syllabi,but the 100 per cent weightage of this exam will be decreased as the CCE scores will be factored in before computing a students final grade, said a senior official.

The CBSE will be making the Class X exam optional from the academic session 2010-11 at the instance of the Kapil Sibal-led Human Resource Development HRD Ministry. As per the plan,students in CBSE schools will not appear for Class X board exam and will just go through a CCE system. Students who have to change schools after Class X will be able to appear for Board exam.