Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE)

The Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) is a standardised curriculum offered in more than 24 countries across the world.As of 2016, the board had a total of 17,300 affiliated schools. Out of these 17,093 are located in India and 207 are located in different countries of the world. In 2016, a total 1,040,515 candidates were registered for class XII examination, which is a 1.1% increased rate of registrants compared to 2015.

Here are some salient features of this curriculum:

• The syllabus is very structured and controlled. It makes use of standardised Textbooks.
• No child can fail a class till 8th grade
• Most entrance exams conducted in the country for college admission follow this syllabus.
• Board exams are OPTIONAL in 10th grade and MANDATORY in 12th Grade
• Favoured by those who constantly relocate within India or even abroad to countries in the Middle East etc and seek a standardized curriculum
• Favoured by those who want to go into the traditional routes of Engineering/medical
• Curriculum Focus at Secondary Level: This focuses on 7 major learning areas (Actual subjects offered will vary from school to school )
• Humanities- Geography, History, Economics, Home Science, Sociology, Fine Arts, Political Science, Fashion Studies, Creative Writing and translation Studies and related subjects
• Mathematics
• Science and Technology – Subjects related to Biology, Chemistry, Physics, ICT, Information Practices and Web and Multimedia Studies
• Health and Physical Education
• Visual and Performing arts – Dance, Drama, Music, Drawing, Painting, Crafts and Sculpture
• Commerce – Business Studies, Accountancy, Entrepreneurship, Economics and related subjects

COUNCIL FOR THE INDIAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS (CISCE)

The Council has been so constituted as to secure suitable representation of: Government of India, State Governments/Union Territories in which there are Schools affiliated to the Council, the Inter-State Board for Anglo-Indian Education, the Association of Indian Universities, the Association of Heads of Anglo-Indian Schools, the Indian Public Schools’ Conference, the Association of Schools for the ISC Examination and members co-opted by the Executive Committee of the Council.

EXAMINATIONS

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations conducts three examinations, namely, the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE –Class X); The Indian School Certificate (ISC – ClassXII) and the Certificate in Vocational Education (CVE – Year 12). The subject choices and syllabuses prescribed for these examinations are varied and aimed at nurturing the unique gifts of individual pupils

• THE ICSE (CLASS X)

• • The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education has been designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 1986, through the medium of English. Private candidates are not permitted to appear for this examination.
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  • [For more details see Regulations and Syllabuses booklet.]

THE ISC (CLASS XII)

The Indian School Certificate Examination is an examination, through the medium of English, designed in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 1986, after a two-year course of studies beyond the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (Year 10) examination or its equivalent examination.

The Certificate of Vocational Education Examination (CVE – 12) has been created as an examination, in accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) through the Joint Council of Vocational Education (JCVE) established under the National Policy of Education 1986. This examination can be taken by candidates after a two year course of studies beyond the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (Year 10) examination or its equivalent examination, through the medium of English.

Assessment

In the CBSE System, instead of 3 exams like Quarterly, half yearly and Annual, there is continuous assessment throughout the year called Formative Assessments (FA) and one exam called Summative assessment (SA). There are two semesters.

First Semester Assessment:

FA1:

• Formative Assessment will consist of 3 activities of 10 marks each: (Final Weightage: 10 marks)
• Individual Activity (Making chart, model, project etc)
• Group Activity (Skit, Model making, project presentations etc)
• Pen and paper exam

DIVISIONS

Courses after 12th – Details