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Monday, May 09, 2005

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Ways to de-stress examinations discussed

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Giving more chances to students who failed in the Board examinations and providing an additional "cool-off'' period of 15 minutes to read the question paper were some of the suggestions discussed at a day-long meeting convened by the Council of Boards of School Education of India (CBSEI) here in the Capital this past week.

The meeting, chaired by the Secretary Education, B.S. Baswan and the Additional Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Sudeep Banerjee, discussed ways of de-stressing examinations.

The issue of replacing the ongoing system of fixed number of subjects at the secondary level with different levels in subjects like mathematics and science catering to different levels of aptitude also came up during the meeting.

Besides, reducing the number of question papers, testing the students only for Class X and XII syllabus in public examinations and re-examining the time limit were some other suggestions put forward by the participants.

In order to reduce pressure on students, it was suggested that other Boards also open helplines like the Central Board of Secondary Education.

The issues of discouraging selective learning and introducing continuous comprehensive evaluation were also touched upon.

The meeting was attended by senior officials of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and chairpersons of various State Boards across the country.

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