Allahabad, Dec 01: Come next academic session and the UP Board — the biggest in the country — is going to undergo major changes in terms of syllabus and examination pattern.
The Board has decided to introduce the credit system, compartmental exams and a single question paper system.
“For the first time in the history of secondary education in the country, the credit system is going to be introduced in UP Board — for high school and intermediate classes,” said Ashok Kumar Ganguly, Additional Project Director of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the chairman of the suggestion committee.
The committee had recently sent its suggestion to the Board, which hasapproved them in toto and has decided to implement them from the next academic session, said a senior member of the Board.
Speaking about the objective, Ganguly said the exercise is to motivate and encourage the students of the Board. It will also make the Board and its curriculum more student-friendly and job oriented.
According to the Board authorities, under the credit system, a student does not have to appear in all the subjects afresh if he has failed in high school or intermediate exams. One will have to appear in only those papers which one has failed to clear. The marks of the papers cleared previously will automatically be added in the final marksheet.
Just like the Central Board of Secondary Education and other national level boards, the students of UP Board will also have the facility of compartmental exams, which is also being introduced for the first time.
While students of high school can appear give compartmental exams for two subjects, the intermediate students will have this facility for only one subject. There is a mandatory provision of taking six subjects in high school and five subjects in the intermediate.
In order to make it more competition oriented, the high school students will now have only a single question paper system each for science, mathematics, English and other subjects.
Previously, there were three papers for science, two papers for English, Hindi, mathematics, social science etc in high school. Like CBSE, the high school students will be declared pass even if one fails in one out of the six papers under the method of “best five” subjects.
The single paper system is not for the intermediate students but there will not be more than two papers for each subject in the intermediate level, said sources.
Stressing on the question paper formulation, the Board has decided to set aside the practice of asking long answer questions. “Now the questions will be short and of objective type, covering the entire syllabus. This will discourage the practice of question banks and force students to study the entire course instead of some selective questions just before the exams,” said Ganguly.
–Agencies