GSHSEB to follow CBSE exam pattern

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government on Tuesday announced that it will follow the Central Board of Secondary Education examination pattern for classes 9-12 in Gujarat board schools. In the changed examination pattern, only 20% weightage will be given to internal marks; 80 marks will be based on the final examination. The 50-mark OMR section, which helped many students clear examinations, will now be reduced to just 16 marks. The remaining 64 marks will cover descriptive questions.
The Gujarat board has stated that the science stream examination for class 12 has been changed to align it to the CBSE pattern. The new examination policy for class 12 will be implemented from March 2020.

The government said that the paper pattern and promotion rules for classes 9 and 11 will be declared later. The government said that from this academic year, the first and the second term examinations for class 9 and 11 will be of 50 marks. Of the 20 internal marks, five marks each will be for the first and second term examinations; five marks will be for timely submission of notebooks; and the remaining five will be for project work.

Education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said that the new examination pattern will help students in their NEET and JEE preparations. The government had already introduced NCERT syllabus in Gujarat board schools and the new examination pattern will help students to be in tune with CBSE students.

“The board carried out an exercise for 11 months before accepting the pattern,” said A J Shah, the chairman of the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board. “We took the opinions of experts, parents, and principals of Kendriya Vidyalayas, among others, before declaring the new pattern.”