NEP 2020 Key Changes in School Education and Board Exams

                NEP 2020             (All questions answered)                                              

In the recently launched National Education Policy 2020, a number of reforms in school education have been outlined.

the Union Cabinet approved the NEP and renamed the Human Resource and Development as the Ministry of Education

NEP says that for reasons of quality, norms will be same for all and not as per ownership.

Now education system revolves around the concept building and practical knowledge

Curricular Structure :

        5 + 3 + 3 + 4  

    

                    

The new NEP proposes the replacement of the existing 10 + 2 pattern.

Under the new curriculum, the students will have 12 years of schooling divided into four stages.

FOUNDATIONAL STAGE [5]:  

                                            

 Pre -School followed by classes 1-2

(3 - 6 years old)with the objective to provide widespread access to early education through Anganwadis and expansion of existing schools. Focus on enhancing communication ability, reading and writing will be given.

PREPARATORY STAGE [3] :  

                      

                                

classes 3 - 5 mother tongue to be medium of instruction  till 5 grade .It will cover basic learning and preparation.

MIDDLE STAGE [3] : 

                                

Classes 6 - 8 importance to vocational education . Focus on reducing the weight of school bags. All students in classes 3,5 and 8 will be required to mandatorily take exams which will be conducted by the appropriate authority.

SECONDARY STAGE [4] : 

                           

 No rigid formation of streams of arts ,commerce and science. Means students will have increased flexibility and will be free to choose subjects across streams. Equal importance will be given to academics and extra curricular activities.These extra curricular activities would be treated as subjects. Board Exams will be modular. They will be redesigned to include multiple choice questions in addition to descriptive questions. We can say that exams will be application based and test actual knowledge instead of rote learning.

The changes in the board exams will be implemented from 2021 academic session.So this year board exams will happen. May be the paper will be concept based but exams are most likely to happen, hoping that the pandemic will not stay for so long.