Now, single paper system for Class XII exams

Now, single paper system for Class XII exams
Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Jammu, April 23
After introducing the single paper system in Class X, the J&K Board of School Education (BoSE) has introduced this system of exams in Class XII from this academic session.

Now, the Class XII students will also have to appear in one paper of each subject and the total marks will be 500 for all streams, including science, commerce, home science and humanities. Earlier, the students had to appear in two papers (A and B) of each of the five subjects and the total marks were 750.

Dr Sheikh Bashir Ahmad, Secretary of the education board, said, “The decision has been taken to facilitate the students, as earlier the process was complicated. Now, there will be one paper each of the five subjects containing 100 marks each, including practicals”.

Describing the single paper system, he said it was not a new system, as the CBSE had already adopted it. “Even we have implemented the system in the Class X exams and on the same pattern the Class XII students will get single papers this year,” said Sheikh Bashir.

He added that, “The syllabus is almost the same, as only minor changes have been made. The single paper system has been adopted to save the time of the students”. Some changes were made in the Class XII examinations last year. “This will surely help the students to get good results and improve the quality of the examination system,” he added.

The session of Class XII started in the Kashmir region in October-November last year, while it began in the Jammu region recently. A senior education board official said those students, who had taken the Class XII exams up to 2010 in the Kashmir region and up to 2011 in the Jammu region, would have to complete their backlog/reappear within a period of three years, as per the existing two paper scheme of examinations. He said the new syllabus and the guidelines on the pattern of examinations were available at all major bookstores.