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Students taking the Class XII CBSE exam in 2019 will have to face more long answer-type questions in the English paper.
The Central Board of Secondary Education, which has 20,000 affiliated schools, has announced changes to its Class XII English Core paper with effect from the 2018-19 session. Nearly 12 lakh students take the board exam every year. English Core is a compulsory paper.
According to a notification issued last week by Joseph Emmanuel, director (academic) of the CBSE, students will have to answer two long answer-type questions of five marks each from a given passage. They had to answer one such question till this year.
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Instead of one short answer-type question of three marks, they will have to answer three such questions of two marks each from now.
However, there will be a reduction in the number of multiple-choice questions (MCQ) and very short answer-type questions carrying one mark each. The number of passages will be two in place of three.
Usha Ram, a former principal of Laxman Public School in New Delhi and ex-governing body member of the CBSE, welcomed the move.
“Students taking the Class XII board exam are supposed to have command over reading and comprehension. More long answer-type questions will help in better assessment of the understanding of students,” Ram said.
The topper of the 2018 CBSE Class XII exam, a student from the humanities stream, had secured 499 marks out of 500. This prompted many to criticise the assessment policy of the board.
The CBSE held consultations with various stakeholders, including parents, teachers, principals and students.
“Consequent upon the feedback received from the various stakeholders and subsequent deliberation in the meeting of the committee of courses of the board and subject experts the following changes have been made,” the CBSE notification said.
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