http://www.readability.com/articles/amev4wvmUshering in what could be the biggest change in the country's school examination system, the Central Board of Secondary Education will introduce an 'open book' section in the final exams for classes 9, 10 and 11 from the current academic year and for class 12 boards from next year (2014-15).
For the 'open book' section — which doesn't mean books can be taken inside the exam hall — students will be given case studies in each subject four months in advance. All questions will be from the given material. This section will carry 20% weightage.
"This section will have questions based only on the case study given to students. The idea is to do away with rote learning and improve students' ability to understand and apply concepts," said CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi.
I meant extra curicular + internal unit exams.Navjot Singh said:60%? Who told you? No way. Each year is divided into 6 sections - four formatives and 2 summatives. Now for each section, certain marks say 20 or 40 in some cases are reserved for so assignments, projects and the like. I don't see how they are extra curricular activities. Most of the students get full marks from here because neither the school nor the teachers want to look bad by failing them over things like not submitting the assignments or not completing group activities which are mostly trivial and in many schools not even implemented properly. They are just new excuses to give grace marks. Teachers have been asked to promote students by making adjustments. Thanks to a super complex and illogical grading system, students never come to know their marks and their real performance and most of the failure cases get promoted.