States to be enabled to abolish Class 10 boards - Kapil Sibal

Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday said the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act will Open the way for state education boards replacing the Class X board exams with a grading system."Under the RTE, elementary education until Class 8 is under comprehensive and continuous evaluation. Once you have that system until class 8, there is no point in changing over to an exam system in Class 10," Sibal said in an interview to the CNN-IBN news channel.

The Central Board of Secondary Education introduced a grading system for this year's Class 10 board exams and will make the exam optional from next year.Noting that the states have been cooperative in preparing a roadmap for the act, Sibal said a decision on its implementation will be taken very soon.


The major changes being introduced in school education include a uniform syllabus for all central and state boards from next year. The human resource development ministry is also pitching for a single national-level entrance test for Class 12 students from science and commerce streams applying for undergraduate courses from 2013.


CBSE is the apex body of all central and state education boards. The decision to introduce a uniform curriculum for all education boards was announced by Sibal in February.