The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to rationalize the syllabus for the academic session 2021-22 for Classes 10 and 12.

For these students, there will be two board exams – term-I and term-II. Each exam will be held on 50 per cent syllabus delivered to students in the said term.

Here are the key decisions:

• The term-end exams will be of 90-minutes duration.
• The exams will be conducted under the supervision of external center superintendents and observers appointed by CBSE.
• CBSE will set the question paper and send it to the schools along with the marking scheme.
• Marks of both term-I and II will be contributed in the final overall score of students.
• The term-I will be held in November-December while the term-II will be held in March-April.
• Term-I exams will have MCQs including case-based MCQs and assertion-reasoning type MCQs.
• Paper-II will have questions on different formats.
• Internal assessment will be given more credit; data collection will start from the beginning of the new academic year.
• For classes 9 to 10, three periodic tests, student enrichment, portfolio, and practical work, speaking listening activities will be conducted.
• For classes 11 and 12 the internal assessment will include unit tests, exploratory activities, practicals, and projects.