CBSE date sheet for remaining class 10, 12 exams released

The board exams will be conducted for the remaining 29 papers from July 1 to July 15, CBSE said.

  

Published: 18th May 2020 06:02 PM  |   Last Updated: 18th May 2020 

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which operates under the Union Human Resources Development ministry, on Monday issued the revised date sheet for the remaining class 10th and 12th board exams.

The board exams will be conducted for the remaining 29 papers from July 1 to July 15, CBSE said.

Class 10 students from the North East Delhi — where riots had disrupted the exams, will appear for Hindi Course A, Hindi Course B, English Communication, English Language and Literature, Science, and Social Science papers.

The remaining papers for class 12 students from across India include Business Studies, Geography, Hindi (Elective), Hindi (Core), Home Science, Sociology, Computer Science (Old), Computer Science (New), Information Practice (Old), Information Practice (new), Information Technology, and Bio-Technology.

The papers for class 12 students from North East Delhi, on the other hand, include English Core, Mathematics, Economics, Biology, Political Science, History, English Elective-N, English Elective-C, Physics, Accountancy, and Chemistry.

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CBSE Class 12, CBSE 10th board exam dates to be announced today at 5 pm

Know about CBSE 10th result and datesheet, and CBSE 12th exam 2020 date sheet, CBSE result and other details

By : BS Web Team |  New Delhi | May 16, 2020

CBSE exam 2020: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) would announce dates for CBSE class 10 and CBSE Class 12 exam 2020 on Saturday, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said. The education board had announced that the pending board exams for Classes 10 and 12 will be conducted in 29 crucial subjects from July 1 to 15.

CBSE 2020: Subjects for which exams will be held for CBSE class 10

For class 10, CBSE will conduct the examinations of only those subjects whose examinations were postponed by the board because of law-and-order situation because of rioting in the capital's North-East Delhi District.

The subjects are:

1. Hindi Course A

2. Hindi Course B

3. English Communication

4. English Language and Literature

5. Science

6. Social Science

CBSE Board Exam 2020: Subjects for which exams will be held for class 12

Examination for the following main subjects would be conducted by CBSE for class 12:

1. Business Studies

2. Geography

3. Hindi (Elective)

4. Hindi (Core)

5. Home Science

6. Sociology

7. Computer Science (Old)

8. Computer Science (New)

9. Information Practice (Old)

10. Information Practice(new)

11. Information Technology

12. Bio-Technology

CBSE result 2020

CBSE result 2020 will be released soon after CBSE 10th and 12th board exams are held.

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Beware of fake datesheet of CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 exams being circulated: PIB

PIB urged people to beware of this fake datesheet claiming to be that of CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 exams.

By: hindustantimes.com | Edited by Akhilesh Nagari | : May 16, 2020

    

The Press Information Bureau (PIB) on Saturday said that a fake whatsapp message claiming to be the datesheet of CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 examination is circulating on the social media. PIB urged people to beware of this fake datesheet claiming to be that of CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 exams.

PIB has tweeted a fact-check regarding this on its official twitter handle.

“Claim - A whatsapp forward claiming to be Date Sheet of #CBSE Board examination for Class 10th & 12th.#PIBFactCheck: #Fake forwards. Union HRD Minister @DrRPNishank will be releasing the date sheet for the same at 5 pm today,” PIB wrote this on Twitter.

Earlier today, Union HRD Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal informed the students that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will release the complete date sheet for the remaining board exams of class 10th and 12th, today at 5pm on the microblogging site, Twitter.

Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com

CBSE gets IAS Manoj Ahuja as new Chairman

Education | Papri Chanda | Updated May 13, 2020

CBSE has appointed IAS Manoj Ahuja as the new Chairman of the Board on Tuesday. Manoj Ahuja, a 1990 batch Odisha cadre officer would be replacing Anita Karwal.

As a major bureaucratic reshuffle by the Centre, Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE has got a new Chairman for the Board. IAS Officer Manoj Ahuja has been appointed as the new Chairman on Tuesday. Among the 19 appointments that were approved the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet, Ahuja was one among them.

Manoj Ahuja is a 1990 batch Odisha cadre officer and is currently working as Special Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Department of Personnel and Training. Ahuja will be replacing Anita Karwal, who has been appointed as Secretaryin the Department of Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development in April.

CBSE has released an official statement that read, “CBSE gets new Chairman Manoj Ahuja, IAS (OR:90), Special Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Department of Personnel and Training.” The Board has also shared a tweet in this regard.

Ahuja will have to take charge to complete the annual Board examination process of both Class 10 and Class 12. The remaining CBSE Board Exams would start on July 1 and would end on July 15, 2020. Soon after the completion of the Board examination, the evaluation process would begin. The evaluation process would be a challenge for the Board amid the social distancing norms.

CBSE Board functions under the overall supervision of the controlling authority which is vested with the Secretary, School Education, and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development.

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CBSE evaluation: Board to issue security guidelines to evaluators working from home

TNN | May 12, 2020, 11.23 AM IST

CBSE evaluation: Board to issue security guidelines to evaluators working from home

With taking the new route of ' from home' amid the lockdown, there may be several concerns about the handling of answers sheets. To address this, board will soon issue security and privacy guidelines to to avoid any mishandling of the answersheets, a CBSE official told .

The board is set to roll out the evaluation process following the approval given by the Ministry of Home Affair to the MHRD. Answersheets will be moved from 3,000 designated schools to the residences of qualified evaluators who will correct it at their homes. The process is expected to be completed in 50 days as 1.5 crore answersheets of class 10 and 12 in 173 subjects needs to be evaluated.

"The guidelines on transportation and security are being formulated and it will be released soon," said the official.

The permission for evaluation has been granted for all areas except the containment zones.

Meanwhile, many state boards including UP, Bihar have resumed evaluation in green zones while in Odisha, this will kick start from May 20.

“The evaluators in green zones are allowed to travel to the evaluation centres. They are using their personal transportation and adhering to all sanitisation and social distancing norms,” said , secretary, . The evaluation is being conducted in 20 green zone districts while for orange zones the evaluation will begin from May 12.

Odisha’s Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has identified 60 centres and around 6000 more evaluators have been appointed to assess the copies.

Source : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

HRD Minister to conduct webinar for teachers on May 14

Union human resource development minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will conduct a webinar for teachers on May 14 from 12 noon onwards. Teachers can connect with the HRD minister through his Twitter handle or his Facebook page

hindustantimes.com| Edited by Nandini , New Delhi | May 09, 2020

Union human resource development minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will conduct a webinar for teachers on May 14 from 12 noon onwards. Teachers can connect with the HRD minister through his Twitter handle or his Facebook page.

The HRD Minister on Saturday tweeted to announce about this webinar.

Teachers can join the webinar and interact with the minister live using the hashtag #EducationMinisterGoesLive .

“I have always had a special place for teachers in my heart and hence I am very excited to announce my next webinar exclusively for teachers on 14th May at 12 noon. Looking forward to receiving your queries and suggestions.#EducationMinisterGoesLive,” he wrote in his tweet.

Source : https://www.hindustantimes.com

How The Pandemic Could Forever Change Higher Education

POST WRITTEN BY Tal Frankfurt | Forbes Technology Council

The historic havoc COVID-19 has wreaked on modern society has been, and continues to be, well documented.  It's time for some good news. These moments of global emergency have the invariable ability to progress technology and the wide-scale implementation of technology, in ways previously not thought possible. With a positive outlook, this crisis can be viewed as a sort of "bypass" button for the application of technological processes and thought patterns that would have taken many more years to adopt in a time of relative peace. One could say that a positive takeaway from disaster is its recurring ability to turn something once viewed as impossible into an accepted aspect of a new reality.

Discussions debating the viability of higher education institutions moving to virtual teaching environments have been taking place for well over a decade. Once COVID-19 was brought stateside and steadily increased its spread, those years' worth of deliberations, evaluations and concerns were all addressed in a matter of hours. With swift intention, educational institutions nationwide were forced to reevaluate their delivery methods across all aspects of teaching, campus life, extracurricular activities and so much more. There has simply been no time to delay. The steps being taken by nations worldwide are proving just how viable the online learning experience is and can be.

The Rise Of Remote Teaching

In a mere matter of days, educational institutions were forced to make major strategical shifts that had been in the works for years. China established a national cloud learning platform providing study materials for all students at the junior and senior high school levels. They've also incorporated public broadcast learning into their domestic education strategy with dedicated public TV channels airing primary school class material.

While these implementations aren't seen as a 1-to-1 replacement of the physical classroom learning experience, the Chinese government has invested considerable resources into the short-term viability of these supplemental programs: 169 lessons covering 12 subjects were introduced in the e-learning platform within its first week.  Major Chinese telecommunications companies, like China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, combined efforts with tech giants Baidu, Alibaba and Huawei to bolster the digital learning network with 7,000 dedicated servers and 90 terabytes of bandwidth.

What we've seen in the short amount of time since this pandemic first arrived is how impactful the virus has been in forcing widespread innovation across the higher education sector. For example, Common Sense Media (once a client of ours) is combating COVID-19-related complacency through the establishment of their Wide Open School: a free online resource powered by the support of over 25 organizations. Wide Open School's collection of learning experiences covers all major scholastic subjects for teachers and students alike while connecting families with programs offering affordable internet and low-cost technology assistance.

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The mindset and motivation inherent to this experience and others have the potential to cause wide-ranging effects on the higher education world. Like China's cloud learning platform, building a deep well of educational material that is freely accessible to students provides another knowledge base for their continued success and furthers the viability of the online learning experience.

Empowering The Virtual Learning Experience

Traditional in-person classroom learning is likely not going away entirely, but the opportunity for heightened virtual solutions complementing that in-class experience will be furthered with the arrival of 5G technology. By the year 2035, 5G networks are projected to generate $13.2 trillion in global sales. The increased, improved stability and revolutionizing of our devices as a result of widespread 5G implementation will likely allow our instructors, students and technology providers to take "anytime, anywhere learning" even further.  Tools like our partner Salesforce Advisor Link provide a unified network for advisors and students within their respective higher education communities. It's no longer sufficient to simply offer online courses. Modern students require greater virtual support, whether it be through advising or communication. Public health events like COVID-19 serve as catalysts of change, showcasing the importance versatile virtual technologies have on our ability to maintain educational standards.

Bridging The Digital Divide

More than 4.5 billion people currently use the internet, but that is still only 60% of the world's population. This gap between countries and socioeconomic equity must change if we are to broaden the viability of virtual learning. The negative effects of the divide are exacerbated in times of crisis, leading to a lack of information, education and opportunity for those offline. Now, more than ever, we must collectively strive for more readily available technology and move past physical limitations in favor of virtual solutions.

Those like California's Calbright College (a former client) understand that online teaching requires the right tools and for the playing field to be leveled for all students when it comes to access to technology. To that effect, Calbright launched a loaner library comprising over 500 Chromebooks and MiFi hotspots for students without economic stability or to those negatively affected by the novel coronavirus. The college's willingness to provide tools and reduce the digital divide speaks to their understanding that online teaching is about far more than just technology; it's about offering support to those who teach and to those who learn. This assistive mindset is so critical to both our short and long-term recovery from COVID's negative effects. The essence of online learning should be focused on providing flexibility and accessibility to all within higher education institutions, enabling students to reach greater heights and not be limited by a predetermined set of circumstances.

If this global pandemic has taught us anything, it's that the importance of online flexibility is absolutely critical for the sustainment of education and overall well-being. We should all take this time to assess our institutions, our organizations and our online habits in an effort to better prepare for such historic upheaval. Opening our minds while our doors remain closed just might put us all in a better position to succeed and educate once normalcy returns.

(Tal Frankfurt is the Founder and CEO of Cloud for Good, a Salesforce partner that creates transformational value with technology.)

Source : https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/05/08/how-the-pandemic-could-forever-change-higher-education/#4ede068f7b93

Re-opening schools a priority but parents wary of sending kids back to school just yet

By : Education | Tulika Tandon | Updated May 09, 2020

Authorities all over the world are facing the challenge of getting back millions of students back to classrooms which have been shut for the past five months now due to the global pandemic conditions. With the situation now coming under control or the man learning to live with it, the realisation to limit the educational damage against the risks of fuelling a rise in a number of cases has come up.

“An estimated 1.5 billion learners from kindergarten to university level were stuck in their homes in 195 countries, a number that stood at 1.3 billion as of May 7,” the UN education agency UNESCO said.

"The decision on when and how to reopen schools is far from simple," UN chief Audrey Azoulay said.

"But as numerous students fall behind in their learning, reopening must be a priority," she added.

With the deadly coronavirus spreading its fangs across the globe, it is getting even more challenging for the world to get accustomed to it. Humans being the most adjustable beings on earth are fighting their way through it impressively. The Governments took a hasty decision of locking the population inside their houses as soon as the disease broke out.

Among the affected categories were mainly students and their parents as their everyday life came to a halt. Dealing impressively with the situation online classes were started but now when the authorities have realised that it is better to live with the situation than to shut ourselves in, the parents and children have moved into a different zone. Parents worldwide do not wish to send their kids to schools now that the authorities in some parts have made arrangements for the same.

It has been seen that the young people are lesser vulnerable to COVID-19 but many experts are of the view that they could still be carriers of the disease. This is a worrying fact for parents, students and teachers. There have been different views across the globe in this regard.

"Some are impatient to renew the contact with students, but others are scared," said Xavier Toussaint, a secondary school teacher in Waterloo, Belgium.

Maintaining social distancing in the classrooms would be very challenging as that would change the entire look of the class. It would also affect the functionality of the classroom, affecting the interaction of students and teachers or students with students. In India, there are almost 500 students in one school and the classrooms are no bigger compared to international schools.

Talking about Toussaint's school of 800 pupils in Belgium, only 10 classes consisting of small groups will resume from May 18. It would be an issue for officials too as they would have to choose every day who to call and who to stop. "The requirement is a maximum of 10 per class, with four square metres (43 square feet) of space per student, plus eight square metres for the teacher," he said.

Similarly in France, continual hand-washing is being promoted throughout the day. The schools have come up with rules such as no group play at recess, one-way hallways to restrict acts of students mingling, and mandatory face masks for all.

Parents have also been asked to take their children's temperature every morning as the country is about to begin a staggered opening in the coming week. Paris schools will accommodate just 15 per cent of students as informed by authorities.

Italy and Spain, Bulgaria, Ireland, Portugal, Tunisia, and the state of New York have called off the classes till September.

The conditions are different though in Wuhan, where the outbreak erupted. Here the students began returning to classes this week, wearing masks and walking through thermal scanners as precautionary measures.

Even the developed nations believe that distance learning cannot compensate for physical learning and thus classes are a necessity. "Students are happy to be back and are following the rules to stay in small groups and limit contacts. And they've become expert hand-washers," said a principal of an Oslo school in Norway.

Source : https://www.timesnownews.com

Govt allows opening 3000 CBSE affiliated schools for evaluating class 10, 12 answer sheets

The board has also given guidelines for the evaluation process.

EDITED BY : Abhishek Sharma | DNA webdesk | May 9, 2020

The government on Saturday gave green signal to the proposal of starting evaluation of answer sheets of class 10 and 12 of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Board Exams.

As per reports, around 1.5 crore answer sheets of class 10 and 12 exams that have been already conducted in 173 subjects will be delivered at homes of teachers.

An official statement from the Ministry of Human Resource Development said that at least 3,000 affiliated schools have been turned into evaluation centres for CBSE Board Exams 2020 and the process will begin on Sunday, i.e. on May 10. The result will thus be made available on the official website of the board.

Special permission will be granted to these schools for the limited purpose of evaluation, Union Education minister  Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said.

The board has also given guidelines for the evaluation process.

On May 8, the minister had announced that the CBSE will conduct the pending class 10, 12 board exams, which were postponed due to the coronavirus lockdown, from July 1 to 15.

While class 12 exams will be held for the whole country while class 10 exams will be held for Northeast Delhi, the minister said.

CBSE is yet to announce a detailed schedule of the exams.

Source : https://www.dnaindia.com

CBSE to evaluate answersheets of Class 10th and 12th from tomorrow as MHA gives nod

Answersheets will be moved from 3,000 designated schools to the residences of qualified evaluators who will mark them from homes and the process is expected to be completed in 50 days.

By: Amandeep Shukla | Hindustan Times, New Delhi | May 09, 2020

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is set to roll the process of evaluation of answersheets from Sunday as the Ministry of Home Affairs has given its nod to a HRD ministry proposal in this regard.

Answersheets will be moved from 3,000 designated schools to the residences of qualified evaluators who will mark them from homes and the process is expected to be completed in 50 days.

With nearly 18 lakh students awaiting their class 10 result and another 12 lakh awaiting their class 12 result, the CBSE had been pushing for permission to carry out the evaluation process which had been stuck because of the COVID-19 lockdown.

HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said permission had been granted for evaluation in 3000 schools. He expressed hope that 1.5 crore answersheets in 173 subjects would be evaluated soon.

“From these 3000 schools these copies will go the evaluators and evaluation will begin tomorrow. Teachers will evaluate from home and we will be able to complete the process in 50 days,” he said. The minister said meanwhile the tests for 29 other subjects of class X and XII will be held.

According to a government official, permission has been granted for all areas except containment zones.

The CBSE will now form a detailed plan according to which evaluation will have to be conducted while keeping social distancing. Normally, evaluators were called to a centre but this time keeping in mind the situation, the work if being done in work from home mode.

On Friday, the HRD ministry had cleared the way for holding the pending CBSE class 10 and 12 board exams. These will be held from July 1 to July 15, the HRD ministry announced.

“ While the exams for 12 subjects of class 12 will be held across the country, the exams for class 10 will be held only in north-east Delhi, where some of the tests could not be held earlier because of communal violence in the area. Overall the CBSE would conduct 29 exams.

However, given the situation, it is no easy task and even HRD and CBSE officials admit, the decision will be reviewed in case the situation is not conducive.

Randeep Guleria, the director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had recently said that Covid-19 pandemic in the country may not have peaked yet.

“According to modeling data and the way our cases are increasing, it is likely that peak can come in June and July. But there are many variables and with time only we will know how much they are effective and the effect of extending the lockdown,” said Guleria had said.

A government officials said while the hope was the exams will be conducted, the capacity and preparedness will be reviewed in light of the circumstances.

“A lot of work needs to be done regarding norms as to how students will come to exam centres, the seating arrangement etc. CBSE will bring out certain directions from time to time in this regard. School managements will also have to do their part so that social distancing takes place,” said a senior CBSE official.

The HRD ministry has already announced that JEE (Main) will be conducted from July 18 to 23 and NEET from July 26.

“We want to give students a ten day window before we commence the exams. It is unlikely that exams will happen in May. So, the plan is to complete the process in the first half of July,” he said.

The engineering entrance examination JEE will be held from July 18-23, while the medical entrance test NEET will be conducted on July 26, the minister had earlier announced. The two crucial exams, and also the Class X and Class XII exams were postponed due to the lockdown imposed to combat the spread of Covid-19.

Source : https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/cbse-to-evaluate-class-10-12-answersheets-after-mha-nod/story-YXnig8RfQznoGTnRi21iZK.html