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CBSE syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 reduced by 30 per cent, know what’s excluded

By TNP Digital Desk -
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  • 8th July 2020,
  • 12:18 PM

CBSE Syllabus: The Central Board of Secondary Education has advised school principals and teachers to ensure that the topics that have been excluded are explained to the students to the extent required to connect different topics.

CBSE Syllabus

CBSE Syllabus reduced by 30%

CBSE syllabus: HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on July 7, 2020, amid the COVID -19 pandemic announced that the Central Board Of Secondary Education, CBSE syllabus for Classes 9 to 12, for the session 2020-21 has been reduced by 30%. HRD Minister further announced that the core concepts will be retained. Pokhriyal took to his official Twitter handle and tweeted that the decision of reducing the CBSE syllabus has been taken from the suggestions of 1500 stakeholders and educationists.

CBSE at the beginning of the academic year 2020-21, already designed the curriculum for the Classes 9 to 12. Now, CBSE has deleted some topics and chapters. Students can check the syllabus directly from CBSE official site – cbse.nic.in.

What is removed from the CBSE syllabus?

For Class 11 students: The core English course will not include exercises to write a letter to the editor or apply for a job with a resume. The class 11 Students of political science, won’t be studying federalism in the Constitution during the academic year 2020-21. Sections on citizenship, secularism and nationalism have also been removed.

For Class 12 students: The topic of India’s relations with its neighbours has been deleted, along with sections on social movements, regional aspirations, the changing nature of India’s economic development, and the Planning Commission. Business Studies students will not study the concept of demonetization, Goods and Services Tax, or the impact of government policy changes on business with special reference to liberalization, privatization and globalization in India.

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In History classes, students will not study chapters on the understanding partition, or on peasants, zamindars and the State. Not only this but also GST has been removed from the syllabus.

CBSE has advised school principals and teachers to ensure that “the topics that have been reduced are also explained to the students to the extent required to connect different topics. However the reduced syllabus will not be part of the topics for Internal Assessment and year-end Board Examination,” said an official statement.

Manish Sisodia, recently, requested HRD minister to reduce the CBSE syllabus by 30% through a letter and also advocated that CBSE should move to a pattern of continuous evaluation instead of one-time high-stake exams.

NCERT released the Alternative Academic Calendar for all classes:

National Council of Education Research and Training, released the subject-wise Alternative Academic Calendars for all classes, which contains all the guidelines which students are required to follow while studying online from the house during the lockdown.

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