NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education has made a big decision over not reducing the syllabus for the students of classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2021-22. A new curriculum has issued regarding the syllabus. Last year, CBSE did syllabus-rationalization by up to 30 percent for classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2020-21 amid the COVID-19 crisis.
According to the new curriculum, the chapters and topics that were cut in the last academic year have been restored for the upcoming academic session. A CBSE official has confirmed the news saying "The board already announced last year that the rationalisation exercise was a one-time initiative as teaching and learning through online mediums or alternative methods was fairly new then." Amid the coronavirus havoc, schools across the country were closed in March last year. All the activities were conducted online during the lockdown. While a few states allowed a partial reopening of the schools in October, several states are again resorting to online classes in the new academic session. In the updated official curriculum, the board this time has dropped the chapters on democracy and diversity, demonetization, nationalism, secularism, India's relations with its neighbors, and growth of local governments in the country, among others.
Last year, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations had also announced a reduction of up to 25 percent in the syllabus for the classes 10 and 12 board exams in 2021, taking into account the learning disruption due to the closure of schools during the lockdown. The CICSE is yet to announce its syllabus for the new academic session.
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