tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49443422626202395322024-03-08T03:23:02.137-08:00Education TodayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11476923902707446518noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4944342262620239532.post-20210920609185311922017-10-21T21:55:00.000-07:002017-10-21T21:55:16.606-07:00 Children Who Enjoy Mathematics Have Higher Academic Achievements<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Children who enjoy studying mathematics and <b>take pride in good scores are more likely to have higher academic achievements</b>, say scientists who found that positive emotions and success at learning in math mutually reinforce each other. Scientists found that students' learning and cognitive performance can be influenced by emotional reactions to learning, like enjoyment, anxiety and boredom.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Researchers Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) in Munich in Germany studied how students' emotions in a school context relate to their achievement. The study focused on achievement in math, which is not only important for education and economic productivity but is also known to prompt strong emotional reactions in students.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"We found that emotions influenced students' math achievement over the years," said Reinhard Pekrun, professor at LMU Munich and Australian Catholic University.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Students with higher intelligence had better grades and test scores, but those who also enjoyed and took pride in math had even better achievement," said Pekrun, who led the study.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;">The research was conducted as part of the Project for the Analysis of Learning and Achievement in Mathematics (PALMA).</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" /><span style="color: #333333;">It included annual assessments of emotions and achievement in math in 3,425 students from grades five through nine.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 23.4px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #333333;">Read more at </span><span style="color: #333333;">http://m.ndtv.com/education/board-exams-2017-kids-who-enjoy-mathematics-have-higher-academic-achievements-1658381</span></span></span></h4>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11476923902707446518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4944342262620239532.post-48144037867190596602017-04-09T21:32:00.001-07:002017-04-09T21:32:45.857-07:00The Board has opened up opportunities for students in the vocational stream<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">‘Syllabus of
mathematics and science in secondary school education’ is one of the most
discussed topics in the academic circles of India. Academicians, parents and
industry experts have long been arguing that mathematics and science taught in
Class VIII – Class X are not useful at work, unless the student decides to take
up a career in education or research in the relevant fields. Education boards
have understood the truth in this argument and have started taking corrective
measures in this direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">One such initiative
taken by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is remodelling its
assessment scheme for Class X vocational stream. Now, the vocational stream
students have to study six subjects, wherein the sixth subject is an additional
subject. Those who fail in either social science, mathematics or science can
replace it with a vocational subject. The board exam results will be computed
accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Those who want to
reappear for the failed subject can take the compartment examination. So, now,
CBSE students who are not comfortable with one of the three subjects can still
pass the board examination by clearing the vocational paper. But of course,
they have to study one additional subject. This is mandated under the National
Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The 13 options from
which the students can choose their sixth subject are: Introduction to
Financial Market, Food Production, Basic Agriculture, Information Technology,
Dynamics of Retailing, Automobile Technology, Beauty and Wellness, Security,
Front Office Operations, Introduction to Tourism, Marketing and Sales, Banking
and Insurance, and Health Care Services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The National Skill
Development Corporation (NSDC) has set up SSCs to conduct skill gap studies,
develop competency frameworks, create occupational standards and qualification
bodies and assess and certify trainees on the curriculum aligned to National
Occupational Standards developed by them. Till date, NSDC has approved 38 SSCs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Given below are a
few job roles for which the SSCs have designed courses:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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machine operator, bulk milk cooler operator, chilling plant technician and milk
collection centre in-charge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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record keeper and washing machine operator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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repair painter, maintenance technician, warranty processor, welding technician
and taxi driver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "TundraWeb-Bold","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Beauty and Wellness:</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> Spa therapist, bridal fashion
and photographic make-up artist, beauty advisor, beauty therapist, make up
trainer, senior nail technician, skin care trainer and hair care trainer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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business facilitator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conventional milling, machine polisher, fitter fabrication, forger, manual
metal arc welder, stud welding, tool and die maker and tungsten inert gas
welder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "TundraWeb-Bold","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Construction:</span><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> Foreman reinforcement,
assistant laboratory and field technician, helper electrician, pre-cast
erection, grinder – construction, plasma cutter, tack welder and construction
UT tester.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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operator, in-store demonstrator, assembly operator – RAC, safety tester – TV,
smart phone repair technician, installation technician – computing and peripherals,
stencil printing operator and manual insertion operator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cheese maker, dairy processing equipment operator, dairy products processor and
pulse processing technician.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GP – polisher, DP – auto blocker, DP – final assortment supervisor, window
opener, rough marker, setter, sorter and C & DS – Metal setter (basic).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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domestic data entry operator and domestic biometric data operator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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assistant and dental assistant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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goods packaging machine operator, loading supervisor, shipment bagging agent
and transport consolidator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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compositor, editor, hairdresser, lighting artist, roto artist and sales
director.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The minimum
education qualification to take up the above mentioned courses is Class X.
After completing the course and working for some time, students can pursue a
higher level course offered by the SSCs. Alternatively, they can join
mainstream academics — Class XI and Class XII. The initiative of CBSE is a
welcome move. It will give students who want to exit studies after Class X, the
choice to do so. Later, they can come back and study further, when they want
to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">In a fresh initiative, the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) will now conduct two board examinations for Class X students. The state education board has roped in 58 English-medium schools affiliated to </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/GSHSEB" pg="AS1_InlineMedia#AS1_Link#AS1_http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Gujarat-secondary-and-higher-secondary-education-board-plans-two-class-X-board-exams-for-58-schools/articleshow/55302750.cms" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; opacity: 0.8; text-decoration: none;">GSHSEB</a><span style="background-color: white;">, from across major cities of the state to be part of a pilot project.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Under the project, class X students of these schools will take the board exam in three subjects - English, Maths and Science - according to the syllabus of the </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Central-Board-of-Secondary-Education" pg="AS1_InlineMedia#AS1_Link#AS1_http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Gujarat-secondary-and-higher-secondary-education-board-plans-two-class-X-board-exams-for-58-schools/articleshow/55302750.cms" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; opacity: 0.8; text-decoration: none;">Central Board of Secondary Education</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (CBSE). For the rest of the subjects, students will take the board exam as per GSHSEB syllabus. The exams will be limited to class X students of these 58 schools only.</span><br style="background-color: white; content: "."; display: block;" /><br style="background-color: white; content: "."; display: block;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="content: "."; display: block;" />Around 20,000 students from GSHSEB-run schools will be part of this project. State board officials are also considering roping in a select few schools from the Gujarati-medium schools too. However this will be implemented after reviewing how the current project fares.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />The state government on Thursday issued a notification stating that admissions in engineering colleges in Gujarat will be granted on basis of Gujarat Common Entrance Test(GUjCET) scores along with class 12 scores. The Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) has been made optional.<br /><br />Gujarat government has now formalized the announcement made a few months back by the state's education minister. <i>The move is aimed to favour those Gujarat board students who do not wish to compete nationally and aim to study locally.</i><br /><br />"Admission in state engineering colleges will be granted on basis of merit prepared giving 60 percent weightage to class 12 scores and 40 percent weightage to GujCET scores," said education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama.<br /><br />"JEE has been made optional for students who wish to take admission on all India quota seats and universities which insist on JEE scores. <i>Mandatory JEE entailed a waste of money, efforts and unnecessary tension for students who do not wish to go outside Gujarat for admission,"</i> Chudasama explained.<br /><br />The surprise move to make JEE optional has drawn flak from many quarters for being regressive and lacking any long-term vision for enhancing quality of higher education.<br /><br />In fact, Gujarat had volunteered to adopt JEE as a mandatory test for engineering admissions in 2009. It is being taken in Gujarati language. From 150-odd students taking admission in IIT and other institutions of national repute in 2009, this number has jumped by 800% to 1200-odd students in 2015.<br /><br />"Once the students had started performing well in JEE, the state government reintroduces GujCET for populist gains before elections. This move is regressive," said a top expert requesting anonymity.<br /><br />Rakesh Bansal, a class XII CBSE student said that the government's decision to notify GujCET six months before exams is not fair for central board students. </span><div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The “optional” class 10 board exam is likely to become “mandatory” again.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) may set the questions for the Class 10 final exam for all its affiliated schools, reverting to a system that was in place till six years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Union human resource development minister will discuss <span class="st_readmore_sp" style="border: 0px; font-size: 15.6px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Class 10 board exam</span>with the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), the highest advisory body for the Centre and state governments on education, at a meeting on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We have representation from a number of states and other representatives because the board exam is still optional in CBSE schools. A broad consensus on it already exists, but a final decision will be taken in the CABE meeting,” said Mahendra Nath Pandey, junior minister in the HRD ministry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The CBSE, which runs more than 18,000 schools, offered in 2011 a choice to students to opt for the board examination or school assessment. Approximately 13,000 private schools across the country are affiliated to the board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many students preferred the second option for their class 10 finals as the general perception is that schools set easier questions for better overall results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making the board exam optional has been a subject of debate as the class 10 final is often considered the stepping stone to higher education. Every student had to sit for the class 10 board exam before the school-based system was introduced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little less than 1.5 million students registered for either the boards or school-based class 10 finals in 2016, of whom 1.4 million passed, CBSE data reveal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The HRD ministry could also take up a <span class="st_readmore_sp" style="border: 0px; font-size: 15.6px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">debate over the no-detention policy </span>, in which students up to class 8 are not detained in the same class even if they don’t do well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“States are concerned over the quality and a decision is likely over this, too,” minister Pandey said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ministry might offer each state the option to decide on the no-detention policy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A CABE sub-committee has been deliberating on this policy. The advisory board, comprising education ministers of all states and central ministers, will discuss the issue on October 25.</span></div>
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Benefits of Participating in Olympiads and Other Competitive Exams</h2>
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Early Exposure to Real Feel Learning and Competition</h3>
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Students gain additional knowledge, they learn the way to answer and confidence to write papers. The competition tends to make participants into very sharp-minded and ‘clever’ problem solvers. It gives a chance to students to sharpen their skills by tackling a number of problems at a level they are not likely to encounter in their classrooms.</div>
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Understanding the Concepts and their Application</h3>
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The Olympiad exams not just test the student’s concept but the application of those concepts. For example, every child learn about calculating HCF and LCM but the questions a student’s face will be based on “Applications of HCF and LCM”.</div>
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Through Olympiads and Competitions, students can analyse their performance at school, city, state, national and international level.</div>
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Awards and Recognition</h3>
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Awards are always good for students moral after they achieve something. Prizes include cash awards, medals, gifts, certificates etc. The International toppers from each class are awarded at a grand prize distribution ceremony. Above all, the pleasure and satisfaction of representing the state/country at national or international level is the best reward for the student.</div>
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Solid Foundation for IIT JEE/AIPMT (NEET)/CA/ICWA/MBA</h3>
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Participating and preparing for exams like NSTSE, <a href="http://mystudycart.com/examinations/ntse" style="border: 0px; color: #0b91ea; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">NTSE</a>, JSTSE, NSO, IMO helps in development of student’s IQ, Logical and Analytical thinking from very young age which helps in later stage when they prepare for competitive exams.</div>
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Open Doors to International Universities (With Scholarship Benefits)</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A recent pan-India survey revealed that 98%</span>teachers<span style="background-color: white;"> in schools do not know the real purpose of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE). </span><span style="background-color: white;">The study conducted over three years polled only teachers in 123 schools, but the numbers strongly hint that there is still a long way to go for proper implementation of </span>CCE<span style="background-color: white;">in </span>CBSE<span style="background-color: white;"> and ICSE school</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic;">s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Under CCE, currently applicable only to Std IX and X, a student is evaluated on the basis of six assessments each academic year. There are two summative assessments (SA), which are the traditional pen-paper exams, and four formative assessments (FA), which comprise innovative tests like projects, viva, essay writing etc. The final report card of the student is a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) based on performance in these six assessments. SAs carry 60% weightage while FAs carry 40%.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/98-teachers-do-not-understand-CCE-properly-says-survey/articleshow/54593362.cms</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Write descriptive answers and don't just rely on multiple choice questions” Mulls the CBSE Board. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 15.6px;"><span style="color: #666666;">The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is planning a big systemic change in the months to come.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #262626;">CBSE chairman Rajesh Chaturvedi said that Class 10 board examinations would be revived from 2018 as there is </span>a growing opinion in its favour. In August, the decision to resurrect the Class 10 boards was mulled over during a meeting between HRD minister Smriti Irani and the Central Advisory Board of Education.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">“We will not be able to do it in 2017 as time<span style="color: #262626;"> is short but we will certainly like to go ahead with it from 2018 as it has become important in the context of improving quality. In any case, the state boards are continuing with the board exams,” he said.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Chaturvedi said the matter of re-introducing the examination would be discussed at the next education ministers’ conference and with the ICSE and state boards under the direction of the ministry of human resource development (MHRD).</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">“Students need to be made to write descriptive answers and not just rely on multiple choice questions,” he added</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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