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tage of competency-based
qu-
estions in the coming 2023 Do
and XII. Ti
ard exams for classes X 30% O
2022, the boards had included
in clasS
competency-based questions
Xboards and 20% in class XI. tne
The board is set to
increase
questions
of competency
percentage in
amounting to 40% and 30%
by 10%, respectively.
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CBSE aims to
increase 50-60% ofcom put on
the board
questionsin tea- questiOns for exams
petency-based achieve this,
2025. To
exams by to adopt
quall-
teachers to
encouraged
chers are
such as
art-integ employed by
tative pedagogies le- es are being to
and
students
teach the concepts
sports-integrated
situa-
rated learning, and with real-life
learning,
arning,
project-based
conneCt them
make learning tions, "informs Emmanuel.
toy-based
teaching to prepared to
"Studentsare being
joyful and experiential.
ques-
Education Times, Jo- the
competency-based

Speaking to answer not a

director, CBSE(Aca and hence it is
tions since 2019
seph Emmanuel, toincre However,
stu-
now
"The decision sudden change.
demics), says, competency in a way that pre-
percentage of dents will be taught
ase the 10% in-
with this
exams
questions in the board them to deal
based pares
has been c o m p e t e n c y - b a s e d ques
g
classes XandXlin 2023 Crease of
for the board
at NEP 2020. These qu- be asked in
taken as part of tions that will number of
High Order Thin- Also, as the
le
estions will
assess

among
students exams of2023. questions
would

w king Skills (HOTS) rote learming cul- competency-based

the prepara-
discourage
and will over the years,
of competency ncrease also keep pa-
ture. The percentage the same shall
tion for
that would be asked Emmanuel
based questions ce,"adds
exams in 2023
has been in- Na-
inXboard 20% to Sudha Acharya, chairperson,
30% to 40% and
Creased from Schools Conferen-
tional Progressive
exams. The long-
10- 30% for XII board ce (NPSC), says,
"The board will gra-
term plan will be completed
by 2025. number of compe-
ral duallyinCrease the
examination reform avoid rote
ve ofthe
This is partwhich tency-based questions to
initiative, will transform the memorisation among students as
ch
classroomlearning." inno- NEP 2020 focuses on concept-based
oli- Teachers will have to adopt
multi-di- understanding. We are encouraging
vative teaching methods. A
SCiplinary approach to teaching stu-
teachers to map the concepts of curn-
Di-
ea
dentswould makelearningmore eng culum,
aging for sTudents. Apart from these,
by interconnecting different
subjects to make students'acquire an
e," many new and innovative pedagogi- analytical approach."