Missed AIEEE exam, get ready for online tests

 A central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) notification has said all those students who were not able to appear for the offline exam of All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) on April 29 will be able to appear for online tests on May 12, 19 and 26.

The circular also mentions that a different date can also be allotted by the CBSE to the candidate in case the seat is not available on the selected date.

The online exam that started this year has not received a good response from candidates. Hardly any candidate from different coaching centres have opted for the online test. Vaibhav Bakliwal of the Bakliwal tutorials said, “The online exams have got a very bad response this year. While it is good that candidates have been given a second chance, it is probable that the ones who decided not to sit for the exam have done...so on purpose.” 

Shailendra Parolkar, director of Go Get It coaching centre in Viman Nagar, said, “The online exam this year has been a failure probably because when it comes to competitive exams, nobody wants to take any risk. So almost everyone is going for offline exams.”

The notification released by CBSE also mentions that ‘Irrespective of the request submitted, only those candidates will be considered valid who could not appear on April 29, 2012, AIEEE offline examination’. The last date for submission of request for the online test is May 5....

CBSE students get Sanskrit paper their friends took 2 weeks before

MUMBAI: September 22-Class X students of R N Podar School, Santa Cruz, took a lengthy Sanskrit paper as part of their comprehensive and continuous evaluation (CCE), an alternative to the board examination.

October 7-Rajhans Vidyalaya students were in for a surprise when they were handed out the exact question paper their friends in Podar were tested on two weeks ago.

Such incidents are likely to repeat among Class X students who have opted out of the board exam and have gone in for the school-based assessment. The CCE was launched a year ago to relieve students of the stress of a year-end exam.

However, the CBSE wanted uniformity in testing and hence sends CCE question papers to schools. Institutes wanting to design their own papers have to get them approved by the board. Hence, most schools go with one of the question papers sent by the CBSE, a principal explained.

The system has, however, probably run into its first gaffe with two schools picking the same question paper sent by the board.

"Many of us were surprised when we received the same question paper that our friends in Podar had got," said a student from Rajhans Vidyalaya. "In fact, our coaching class had distributed copies of Podar's question paper to the rest of us to solve for practice." Rajhans principal Deepshika Srivastava said she picked a question paper from the set of eight others that were sent to her by the CBSE.

CBSE's regional officer N Nagraju said a CD of eight to 10 question papers is sent to CBSE schools and the principals pick one.

With over 10,000 CBSE schools, the probability of schools picking up the same paper from a bank of 10 is high, experts said.

CBSE Single Girl Child Scholarship

The Central Board of Secondary Education has invited applications from 2011 batch of X & XII classes for the award of the following Scholarship Schemes :

1. CBSE Merit Scholarship Scheme for Single Girl Child for + 2 studies.
2. Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students 2011.

• The details and eligibility conditions alongwith the application form is available on the Board's website www.cbse.nic.in.publicportal.scholarship or
• (http://www.cbse.nic.in/Scholarship/Webpages/Home%20Page%20Scholarship.html)

The last date for receipt of application is 31st October, 2011.

67% teachers are not comfortable with CCE

A nationwide survey of the Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation (CCE) scheme has thrown up significant findings. Two years after CBSE introduced CCE system, a staggering 67% of the teachers are still grappling with it, while 58% of them have a negative or indifferent approach towards it. The only stakeholders of the scheme who are in favour of it are the students — 64% of the students from the surveyed schools find the new system better.


The survey was done by the National Association of School Principals in July, after declaration of the CBSE Board results in May/June this year. A questionnaire based on CCE was sent to all the schools on a random basis, of which 260 schools affiliated to CBSE responded. CBSE has around 10,000 schools under its fold in India and abroad.

SA1 & SA 2 WILL GET EQUAL WEIGHTAGE OF 50% EACH

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to revise the weightage of marks assigned to formative and summative assessments in Class X from the next academic session.
The Board will give equal weightage to both the summative assessments (SA 1 and SA2), i.e. 30 per cent of the total weightage.
When HRD Minister Kapil Sibal had introduced the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) in Class IX in October 2009, which was later extended to Class X, the weightage given to SA1 and SA2 was 20 and 40 per cent respectively. However, the Board has now asked all its affiliated schools to give 30 per cent weightage to both the summative assessments.

SC rejects CBSE's plea for combined AIPMT and AIEEE exam

Friday, 23 September 2011

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday shelved an ambitious student-friendly initiative from the HRD ministry through the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) proposing to integrate the AIPMT and AIEEE into a single entrance test for admissions to undergraduate medical and engineering courses.

Wary CBSE students opt for board exams

The Central Board of Secondary Education has started sending their schools the option forms, asking them for the number of students who will appear for the board exams and those who will sit for the internal tests for the March 2012 board exams. A couple of schools, which have already compiled the numbers, claimed that close to 90% students have opted for the board exams as they do not want to take any chance. Other schools also feel that the number of students opting for school tests will be much less than those in the 2011 batch. Most children are not keen on the school-based tests as that would not allow them to take admission to any junior college in the state; they will have no other option but to continue studying Stds XI and XII in the same school.