The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), having implemented the ‘continuous and comprehensive evaluation’ (CCE) model in classes IX and X, is now looking to extend the reform to class XI.

A committee, set up especially for this purpose, is working on how and to what extent class XI students can be evaluated through CCE. But with other education boards (both national and state) still not coming around to the idea of examination reforms, the CBSE is treading cautiously and hasn’t yet set a definite deadline to usher in CCE in class XI.

CCE scheme refers to a school-based evaluation of students that covers all the aspects of a student’s development. Under this system, students are assessed on scholastic and coscholastics, throughout the year, through tools such as unit tests, quizzes, projects, discussions, debates – also called ‘formative assessment’ – and two semesterend examinations known as ‘summative assessment’. This scheme was announced and subsequently introduced in class X in the middle of the academic session in 2009. Hence, the timing of introduction and the lack of opportunity for students and teachers to understand and acclimatise to the change had drawn flak from several quarters then. This explains the Board’s extremely cautious approach for class XI, now.

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