CBSE rejects ’baseless’ stories suggesting 15% syllabus minimize for Courses 10 and 12, plans to conduct open-book exams

The Central Board of Secondary Schooling (CBSE) on Thursday rejected stories suggesting discount within the syllabus of sophistication 10 and 12 by 15 % for 2025 board examination and plans to conduct open-book exams in choose topics.

The board issued a clarification after some information shops reported that CBSE has launched discount within the syllabus for the 2025 board exams.

The stories claimed that the modifications have been to be made with the intention to scale back stress of the scholars.

Nevertheless, the board stated that it has not taken any such coverage choice, terming such stories baseless.

“The board has not issued any such discover or made any modifications to the analysis system or examination coverage and knowledge associated to the Board’s coverage choices is simply printed by means of the Board’s official web site or by means of authorised channels,” stated the board.

CBSE additionally clarified that it has not made any modifications to its examination system or inside evaluation system, nor has any official notification been issued on this regard.

The board additional added that info associated to the Board’s coverage choices is simply printed by means of the Board’s official web site or by means of authorised channels.

Earlier this month, CBSE withdrew affiliation of 21 faculties and downgraded six faculties from senior secondary to secondary stage after a shock inspection on the faculties in Rajasthan and Delhi in September throughout which a number of lapses have been discovered.

Of the 21 faculties whose affiliation has been withdrawn, 16 are in Delhi whereas 5 of them are in Rajasthan’s teaching hubs — Kota and Sikar.

“The follow of dummy or non-attending admissions contradicts the core mission of college training, compromising college students’ foundational progress. To deal with this subject, we’re taking a decisive motion to fight the proliferation of dummy faculties and ship a transparent message to all affiliated establishments to withstand the lure of accepting dummy or non-attending admissions,” CBSE Secretary Himanshu Gupta stated.

He stated the important observations of the shock inspection committees relating to the irregularities noticed in the course of the inspections have been communicated as a report back to the respective faculties.

Earlier this yr, the CBSE cancelled the affiliation of 20 faculties for enrolling dummy college students and ineligible candidates.