Board exams to be conducted twice a year: Union Education Minister

Bhubaneswar: As per the new curriculum framework (NCF), the board exams will be conducted twice a year and students will be allowed to retain the best score. NCF, as per national education policy (NEP) 2020, is ready and textbooks for the same will be developed for academic session 2024, said Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today.

A joint workshop of the National Curriculum Framework Oversight Committee and National Syllabus & Teaching-Learning Material Committee was held in New Delhi earlier in the day.

Board exams will evaluate the understanding and achievement of competencies, rather than months of coaching and memorisation. “Today the world has lots of expectations from India. Fulfilling our global responsibility, we have to build a technology-driven education system that meets the expectations of the world along with India,” the Minister expressed.

Under the guidance of Kasturirangan, a steering committee has prepared the curriculum for the new National Education Policy. They have submitted it to the government, the Minister stated.

Under NEP, the work of making rooted and futuristic reading material and textbooks from Class III to Class XII is going on based on the requirements of the 21st century and the original Indian thinking.

“The first orientation meeting took place today. We are confident that at a time when the world is expecting a lot from India, when the PM has shown the dream of Amrut Kal to the nation, at such times, new textbooks will fulfill those requirements. This is a humble effort towards providing new textbooks to all classes by the next academic year,” Pradhan added.

In this series, Pradhan addressed the first joint workshop of the committees.