About CBSE

What is CBSE?

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is a Board of Education for public and private schools, under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) (previously Ministry of Education), Govt. of India. It is a Government Board of Education which was formed on 3rd November 1962 with the sole purpose to make a common standard and platform for every student in the country.

The CBSE as a national level Board of school education having authority to affiliate schools for school education, conducting the Secondary School Examination and the Senior School Certificate Examination, and award of certificates. It regulates the curriculum and organises examinations of 10th and +2 of the institutes which are affiliated to it. The CBSE Board is also vested with the authority to issue the certificate to successful candidates. The certificates awarded by CBSE are recognized for higher studies as well as for employment.

The main objectives were to serve the educational institutions more effectively, to be responsive to the educational needs of those students whose parents were employed in the Central Government and had frequently transferable jobs.

The Prime Focus of CBSE is on

• Innovations in teaching-learning methodologies by devising students friendly and students centered paradigms.
• Reforms in examinations and evaluation practices.
• Skill learning by adding job-oriented and job-linked inputs.
• Regularly updating the pedagogical skills of the teachers and administrators by conducting in service training programmes, workshops etc.

CBSE motto is “Asto ma Sad gamay” (असतो मा सद्गमय ) – “O God ! Please lead me towards truth from untruth”.

CBSE Affiliations

CBSE affiliates all Kendriya Vidyalayas, all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, private schools and most of the schools approved by central government of India. There are approximately 20,299 schools in India and 220 schools in 28 foreign countries affiliated to the CBSE.

CBSE Exams

CBSE conducts the final examinations for Class 10 and Class 12 every year in the month of March. The results are announced by the end of May. The board earlier conducted the AIEEE Examination for admission to undergraduate courses in engineering and architecture in colleges across India. However the AIEEE exam was merged with the IIT-Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) in 2013. The common examination is now called JEE (Main) and is henceforth conducted by National Testing Agency.

CBSE Promotion Criteria For Class 10^th & 12^th

• For Class 10^th : For promotion from Secondary (Class 10) to Senior Secondary (Class 11-12), a student must obtain, for all subjects (or best 5 if 6 subjects are taken), 33% overall, without any minimum theory mark requirement.
• For Class 12^th : For class 12 students the promotion criteria is 33% overall, with 33% in both theory and practical examinations (if applicable).

Note:

• For a student who does not manage to pass up to two subjects, he/she can write the compartment in those subjects in July.
• For those who fail the compartment, or those who fail in three subjects or more, he/she must rewrite all the subjects taken in the next year.

Changes for 2020 Exam for class 10^th

• Two separate mathematics exams will be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in the Class 10 board exam beginning in 2020. The current Mathematics exam is now Mathematics Standard and an easier version of Mathematics (called Mathematics Basic) has been introduced Students taking the latter version may not study Mathematics to any further level.
• The option to choose mathematics will be mentioned in the registration form for class 10 CBSE board examination. Candidates will be required to select their test choice while completing the CBSE Class 10 board review 2020 registration form.

CBSE Grading System For Class 10^th & 12^th

For the Class 10 and Class 12 exams, CBSE (along with the marks obtained) includes the positional grade obtained by the student, which is dependent on the average performance of the students in that subject. Consequently, the cutoffs required to obtain a particular grade vary every year.

• Assessment of theory/practical papers in external subjects shall be in numerical scores. In addition to numerical scores, the Board shall indicate grades in the marks sheets issued to the candidates in case of subjects of external examinations. In case of internal assessment subjects, only grades shall be shown.
• Subjects of internal examination in Class X the assessment shall be made on a five point scale I.e. A,B,C,D & E.
• The grades shall be derived from scores in case of subjects of external examination. In case of subjects of internal assessment, they shall be awarded by the schools.
• The qualifying marks in each subject of external examination shall be 33% . However at Senior School Certificate Examination, in a subject involving practical work, a candidate must obtain 33% marks in the theory and 33% marks in the practical separately in addition to 33% marks in aggregate, in order to qualify in that subject.
• For awarding the grades, the Board shall put all the passed students in a rank order and will award grades as above.

CBSE Regional Offices

Presently CBSE has 10 regional offices:

• Delhi: Covering NCT of Delhi and Foreign Schools.
• Chennai: Covering Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Daman and Diu, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
• Guwahati: Covering Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
• Ajmer: Covering Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
• Panchkula: Covering Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.
• Allahabad: Covering Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
• Patna: Covering Bihar and Jharkhand.
• Bhubaneswar: Covering Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal.
• Thiruvananthapuram: Covering Kerala and Lakshadweep.
• Dehradun: Covering Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

CBSE History

In 1929, the government of India set up a joint Board named "Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Rajputana". This included Ajmer, Merwara, Central India and Gwalior. Later it was confined to Ajmer, Bhopal and Vindhya Pradesh. In 1952, it became the "Central Board of Secondary Education".