CBSE or Metric ?? After crossing the first hurdle – the Class X examination – some students are contemplating a move to other boards of study for the final years of their school education. But the differences in curriculum, teaching methodology and the examination pattern require the students to adopt a new approach. This shift is more common among the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) students, with many interested in moving into State board schools. Some state board schools do not encourage children from the CBSE board to join them in Class XI as the learning approach is different “The methodology in matriculation schools places emphasis on rote learning. Students thorough with the textual content can excel in the state board, but students from CBSE schools who are trained to think analytically tend to find it hard to memorise concepts,” . “There are many concepts in Class XI new to students from CBSE that the matriculation schools students are already familiar with. In such cases need special attention to explain the concepts to these students.. The examination pattern also varies between the two boards. “In the CBSE syllabus the maximum marks awarded to a question is five, for which the students are required to answer to the point whereas in the matriculation syllabus students have write at least two and a half pages for a 10-mark question Students of CBSE schools who are familiar with application of concepts in examinations fare better in the entrance examinations But for the Class XII board examination, these students who are familiar with answering a 100 mark question paper in two hours and a half, are initially anxious about the three-hour time constraint in answering a 200 mark question paper in the State Board. But CBSE teachers agree that though their students face certain challenges when they migrate to a different board, they also have some advantage. “The blueprint of the State Board has options for questions that allow the students to ignore certain lessons, making it easy for them,” says a biology teacher from a CBSE school....
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 05:05:26 +0000
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