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Oct 21,
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will introduce Open
Text Based Assessment (OTBA) system for students from next academic
session 2013-14. Under the open book system, students will be informed
four months in advance about the study material on which the
examinations will be conducted.
It will first begin for
students of 9th and 11th classes. The main reason behind implementing
the new system is to strengthen students' analytical and theoretical
skills by moving away from the existing practice of memorisation.
Talking to AIR, Chairman, CBSE, Vineet Joshi said, the study material
has been released for all main subjects including English, Hindi,
Mathematics, Science and Social Science for 9th class and geography,
economics and biology for 11th class examinations from March 2014.
AIR correspondent reports, the CBSE recommends that multiple modes of
assessment need to be provided to cater to the varied abilities of
individual strengths of learners. It also reworked the marks
distribution to accommodate OTBA scores in the main subject marks.
The question papers in main subjects under Summative Assessment-SA-II
will be of 90 marks --70 marks for English and 20 marks for assessment
of speaking and listening skills based on prescribed syllabus and
question paper design. CBSE has advised teachers associated with the new
system to read, discuss and analyse the text material closely.
