CBSE Denies Having Eliminated 5 Chapters Of The Class 10 Social Science

The supposed abandoned chapters, which include three on political studies and two on the environment, will only be part of the internal evaluation, but not the final examination of the board, CBSE said.

After several websites and newspapers reported that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) allegedly decided to abandon five social science chapters, the board issued a statement rejecting the claims. CBSE clarified that the Board has not removed chapters from the social studies curriculum. 10. All chapters will be studied by students in class 10 in "due time and will also be evaluated."

In a press release, the CBSE stated: "The decision of the board of directors to make few chapters as part of the internal evaluation is based on the fundamentals of stakeholder opinion and the recommendations of the Social Sciences Courses Committee".

The supposed abandoned chapters, including three on political studies and two on the environment, will only be part of the internal evaluation, but not the final examination of the board of directors, declared the CBSE.

CBSE said they have been receiving "numerous requests" from their stakeholders to "streamline the Social Sciences curriculum", as students were forced to study the huge program of four different disciplines, for example, history, geography, political science and economics.

After receiving the recommendation, the council decided to implement a new evaluation system. "The Social Sciences Courses Committee recommended evaluating these chapters under the new school-based enhanced assessment system in line with the general spirit of the Board of Directors' March 6, 2019 circular, which focuses on how CBSE intends Strengthen your evaluation process, including the school.” Based / internal evaluation, to increase the set of skills that students are acquiring," CBSE said in the press release.

The aforementioned chapters, namely Democracy and Diversity, Popular Struggle and Movements and Challenges to Democracy, can be better understood through project work and experiential learning, and evaluated in a similar way through different modes in addition to the tests in paper, in any of the following forms or combinations of different forms for periodic tests.

Last month, the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) removed three chapters from its Class 9 history textbook, including one that illustrates caste conflict through the struggles of Women swim from Travancore, called "low caste", who were forced to keep their bodies discovered.

By: Preeti Narula

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