Exam pressure for children too? Now children of class fifth and eighth will also give board examinations from 2018 but there will be no pass or fail tag for them, as per the rule by Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), Council CEO Gerry Arathoon said in Kolkata on Wednesday.
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“It will be just a periodical evaluation exercise to have an idea on the progress of the students’ learning after a particular level,” the CEO said. He told a press conference the board has decided to introduce three compulsory subjects- Sanskrit, yoga and performing arts. Yoga and performing arts will be compulsory between classes 1 and 8 and Sanskrit will be taught in classes 5 to 8.
“In class 5 and 8 board examinations, the answer papers of the students of one school will be evaluated by teachers of another school, as it happens in the case of the final class 10 level examination,’ he added.
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The board will provide the questions for both the board examinations at Class 5 and Class 8. All the ICSE-affiliated schools will have to follow uniform syllabus from nursery till class 10. So far, the schools had the freedom to decide the syllabi from Nursery to Class 10. “The new uniform syllabi will be effective from 2018,” Arathoon said.