CBSE News: CBSE bringing change in result format

• The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to discontinue the practice of mentioning the Class 9 scores while announcing the Class 10 results. The CBSE which has made Clad 10 board exams mandatory from 2018, used to mention the Class 9 performance of students although it was not counted in the overall results. "After due consideration, it has been decided that this year onwards CBSE will not include Class IX results in Gradesheet cum Certificate of Performance of Class X. This provision will be applicable to both board based and school based candidates." a CBSE circular said. 

• Next change is that CBSE has also decided to discontinue the practice of giving details in the mark sheets of students' performance in co-scholastics areas like projects, assignments, art, music and sports that carried 40% weightage. Henceforth, the concerned school will send the exact grade point score of the students in the co-scholastic areas which will be included in the overall score while announcing the results. 

• From the next year, the performance in scholastic areas will have 80% weightage. Internal assessments will carry 20% weightage.

Few other changes brought by CBSE recently : 

• CBSE schools will follow NCERT textbooks only from 2017-18 session 
• CBSE ends OTBA (Open Text Based Assessment)
• Changes in Exam, Syllabus and Grading from Class 6 to 8 in CBSE school

(Source: The Telegraph)