Nealy 17 Lakh student to appear for CBSE boards exams

Overall 17.7 lakh students are going to take CBSE's Class X and XII Board exams starting from March 1. Around 60-65% of the Class XII students will take their first-ever Board exam as this is the first batch which got the option to skip the Class X Boards in 2011 for the school-based test.

According to sources of Central Board of Secondary Education, 22 lakh students have registered at Class X and XII levels, two lakh more from 2012. A total of 9.42 lakh students will appear for the Class XII Boards, an increase of over a lakh from 2012.

Another first for the Class XII students this year will be the introduction of the value-based questions of 3-5 marks each in 15 major subjects across the streams. The subjects include English, Hindi, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, accountancy, history, geography, business studies, entrepreneurship and economics.

The questions, to be interdisciplinary in nature, will be for 5 marks in a 100-mark paper and 3-4 marks in a question paper of 70 marks.