Question

What do you mean by 10+2+3 pattern of education? and its salient features?

Answer 1

The new pattern of education which has become popular as the 10+2+3 scheme seeks to divide schooling into two stages of education, instead of the integrated stage it is at present. After a child enters kindergarten at the age of four, he will finish 10 years of schooling-the first stage of education-and take a secondary school certificate examination at the end of it. In the second stage he will take two more years to finish his high school certificate examination; in the third stage he will take a bachelor's degree at the end of three years at university. For the first time a uniform pattern is being introduced instead of different states following different systems. At present many states have 12 years of school, then two years of an intermediate degree followed by another two years for a bachelor's degree. In other states the pattern is 12 years of school and three years of college for a bachelor's degree. The new pattern was introduced last year in many states. Under this scheme, the first batch of students took their Class X examinations this year in April-May. Perhaps the most far-reaching educational reform which the new pattern seeks to bring out is to make science a compulsory subject almost from the first years of schooling right through till the end of the Class X. The main criticism being levelled is that schools do not have the necessary laboratories for it.