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The Central Board of Secondary Education has released the new assessment and evaluation Pattern for the Academic Session of 2021-22. CBSE had recently announced that the Class 10 examinations have been canceled owing to the increasing COVID-19 cases in the country. Along with announcing the cancellation of the examinations, the board also announced that the students will be evaluated based on objective evaluation criteria. The evaluation pattern is aimed to boost competency-based education (CBE).
CBSE New Assessment Pattern for 2021-22
The board officials have released a revised evaluation pattern for the class 10 students. As per the new assessment pattern the overall marks and the duration of the exams have been changed with a greater number of competency-based questions to assess the applications of concepts in real-life situations will be included in the assessment.
CBSE Revised Assessment Scheme
Biswajit Saha, director, Training and Skill Development, CBSE, while speaking about the assessment program stated that during a time when home-schooling and online education has become relevant the traditional method of assessment will become non-essential and if continued further the traditional method of assessment can be misinterpreted by the teachers and students.
Assessment for classes 9 and 10
The percentage of Competency-based questions for the class 9 and 19 students has been increased from 20 to 30 which will be multiple choice questions, case-based questions, course-based integrated questions, or any other type. The Objective ty[e questions will include 20 percent of the questions similar to the last academic year and the remaining 50 percent will be short and long answer type questions.
Assessment for class 11 and 12
For the students of classes 11 and 12, the competency-based questions will be 20 percent similar to last year while the objective type questions have been increased from 10 to 20 percent. The short answer and long answer type questions will be reduced from 70 to 60 percent.
Biswajit Saha further added that the board will be transforming the focus from assessment of learning to assessment for learning. The assessment will shift from testing primarily rote memorization skills to one which tests students’ higher-order skills including analysis, critical thinking, and conceptual clarity. He added that the change will happen gradually as the teachers and students adjust to the new pattern.