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‘Students Will Be Provided With Better And Flexible Course’ Proposes National Curriculum Framework Draft

Class 10 and 12 results will now be based on the aggregate of the two-year performance of the student. The evaluation for class 10 will start from class 9 and for class 12, the same will start from class 11. It accounts for the collective result of 4 semesters over the two years. Students however can choose their respective subjects as per their requirements and interest. There will be 8 curricular areas to choose from, proposes the draft by National Curriculum Framework (NCF).

The draft is extended further for feedback, recommendations and changes. It recommends final board exams twice a year rather than once. The goal for he same is to break the “straight jacket of streams”.

Proposals by National Curriculum Framework

It rather proposes a group of 8 curricular areas each for classes 9-10 and 11-12. Students can choose from any 16 courses from the curricular areas which will be covered over a time period of 4 semesters.

The draft states that the second stage of classes 9th to 12th will take 4 years of multi-disciplinary study. It will also allow students to choose whatever subject they want.

The eight curricular areas are-

Humanities

Mathematics and Computing

Vocational education

Physical Education

Arts education

Social Science

Science and Interdisciplinary areas

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Draft by National Steering Committee

The committee is headed by former ISRO Chief, K Kasturirangan and based on which the new school syllabus and textbooks are to be designed, states: “The current practice of streaming into science, arts/humanities and commerce will be replaced by a design that enables both breadth through engagement with a variety of courses across streams and depth in areas chosen by students.”

The draft document states that four years of secondary study will include “essential courses which all students must take, choice-based courses which each student may select and vocational education, arts and sports which will be an integral part of the curriculum”.

Srishti Verma

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