New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) yesterday approved a proposal to reintroduce compulsory Class X board examination from the 2017-18 academic year. The decision was taken during a meeting of the CBSE governing body here, sources said, adding that the first exam will be conducted in 2018.
The decision of the governing body will be conveyed to the government for its approval.
The Class X board examination for CBSE schools was made optional from 2011 under the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system mandated by the Right to Education Act.
Earlier, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar had announced making the CBSE board exams compulsory from the academic session 2017-18.
In another key decision, the CBSE has decided to recommend to the HRD ministry that the three language formula, under which Hindi, English and modern Indian language are taught, should be extended to class IX and X as well from the current VI to VIII, a source said.
Officials added that the Board also favoured sending a recommendation to the Centre that those languages which are listed in schedule VIII.
