About CBSE

About CBSE

The CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) is a mixed unit (Board) of private and public schools that runs under UGI (Union Government of India). This unit was formed on 3 November 1962 about 51 years ago. It runs under the supervision of the Governmental Board of Education.

To get a registration form free, you can call, e-mail or write to CBSE main office with the following address:

Shiksha Kendra,

2 Community Centre,

Delhi – 110092

The official language of CBSE is both Hindi and English. The parent organization of CBSE is the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

You can also get registration online at the CBSE Board Website www.cbse.nic.in.

CBSE affiliates all Kendriya Vidyalayas, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, private schools, and most of the schools affiliated and approved by the Central Government of India.

The CBSE Board conducts final examinations on spring season with All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE) for 10th Grade and 12th Grade students.

The CBSE Board is responsible for conducting AIEEE Examination annually for students who want to take admission in undergraduate courses in Engineering and Architecture in a number of colleges spread overall India.

This Board also conducts AIPMT (All India Pre Medical Test) for those students who want to admission in major and renowned medical colleges in India.

The CBSE has introduced introduce the provision of Revaluation at the Senior Secondary level (12 Grade) from this year.

 Objectives & Goals

• Provides stress-free and child-centered, and quality-based education to all students.
• Analyzes and supervises the quality check of education pattern and system by providing and collecting feedback at regular intervals from schools.
• Organizes various academic activities and small sessions for course developers and teachers too.
• Encourages schools to send feedback about teachers who teach students. It also encourages schools to send the final report cards of students.
• Adapts and replicates the ideas which are helpful in achieving academic excellence methods in compliance with emotional, educational, and social principles.
• Envisions and organizes the empowerment programs which keep informed the professional aptitude of teachers.
• Provides a stress-free learning environment and comprehensive study material and assessment scheme as well for students.
• Provides studies scheme and curriculum, study support material, academic guidelines, fortified and enriched activities for the betterment of students’ future.
• Set scheme of studies, curriculum, academic guidelines, textual material, support material, enrichment activities, and capacity building program time-to-time.

Assessment Scheme

• Examinations of 11 and 9 Grades will be conducted by the CBSE affiliated schools.
• Final examination of 10 Grade and 12 Grade is conducted by CBSE Board every year.
• The examination conducted for 10 Grade and 12 Grade is based on standard syllabus approved by CBSE Board. The syllabi can be changed by Board time-to-time.
• CBSE Curriculum publishes the number of papers, the examination duration, and marks allotted for each paper for a certain year.
• Students have to appear in theory and practical both. The practical examination depends on the nature of the subject.
• CBSE award total marks/Grade for individual subjects.

CBSE CCE

All About CCE

CCE (Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation) education system was introduced by CBSE. This education system is applicable for Grade VI to Grade X students.

It is important for students to know their strengths and weaknesses. Put time and effort into preparing subjects they consider themselves to be weak in.

There are students who can get hold of a particular topic in less time than others. But some may need to invest more time and effort.

Keep these features in hand, CCE focuses mainly on evaluating every aspect of the children during their presence at the school. With the CCE education system, the weak students will be able to focus more.

How CCE Is Helpful

CCE helps in getting students' strength back regarding performance by identifying their learning teething troubles. This process is replicated by CCE to the school at regular time intervals which start right from the beginning of the academic session of a student.

For this, CCES employs a suitable counteractive method to enhance their learning performance.

The scheme of replicating the evaluation process leads to in-built plans for those schools which are affiliated with CBSE. These schools can make their own academic schedules following CCE guidelines.

CCE Tests

CCE conducts mainly two types of tests: formative and summative for students. Both types of Tests are organized for Grades 6th to 10th. These tests are scaled 9 points.

Informative tests, class, and home works are arranged for students to be done, performance reports in oral tests are checked, and quiz results, assignments, and project reports are assessed which all are submitted by students.

This test is conducted 4 times in an academic session carrying 40% weightage for the total (aggregate). Some schools organize written test instead of conducting multiple oral tests (except one mandatory oral test).

In the summative test, a three-hour-long written test is conducted twice in an academic session, i.e., twice a year. The first Summative Assessment (SA-1) Test is conducted by CCE after the first two formative tests are completed.

The Summative Assessment (SA-2) Test is conducted after the next two formative tests. Each summative will carry a 30% weightage and both together will carry a 60% weightage for the total (aggregate). The summative assessment will be conducted by the CBSE-affiliated schools itself.

The question papers will be partially prepared by the CBSE. The answer sheets are evaluated and monitored by CBSE. Once completed, the syllabus of one summative will not be repeated in the next. The CBSE publishes the result by adding the formative score to the summative score, i.e., 40% + 60% = 100% at the end of every year. 

The main subjects include English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Civics, Geography and Economics. Whereas additional subjects include Japanese, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Manipuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, French, Tibetan, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Nepali, Limboo, Lepcha, Bhutia, and Mizo.

The main aim of CCE is to focus on the process of continuous learning in point of fact focuses more on projects and activities than actual learning.

CBSE International

All About The CBSE International

Education has gained a whole new dimension in the changing times when parents are better-informed and want to be at the helm of affairs.

Deciding a good school in itself is a harrowing and mind-boggling experience, this new confusion of the right education board only adds to the ordeal for international parents and school students as well.

Today TestprepKart will help out all the International parents and school-going children by bringing out both well and lesser-known facts and features about CBSE-i.

CBSE-i (CBSE International) is an internationally-benchmarked unit that provides skill-based curriculum to international school students and creates international competition in quality education.

CBSE-i establishes India as a global leader in providing education which is already present in 21 foreign countries with 141 affiliated schools. This unit also provides an effective affordable curriculum to attract developed and developing countries worldwide to seek affiliation with the Indian education system.

Introduced by CBSE in 2010, key subjects of CBSE-i are English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Science supporting a new learning approach towards the revolution of International education by promoting critical and creative thinking skills, effective communication skills, and mutual and interpersonal skills. Mathematics subject is segregated into Elective and Core.

These two segments are applicable for Grade IX and Grade X students and can be chosen by students any one of them as per their aptitude.

At first, in the academic year 2010-2011, the International curriculum of CBSE-i had been applied in about 25 schools in the Middle East and Southeast Asia as a pilot project for Grades I and IX.

It had been further extended for the academic year 2011-2012 for Grades II, VI, and X and also extended for the academic year 2012-2013 for Grades III, VII, and XI. The CBSE-i Board will review and extend it to other schools abroad in its next phase of progress promotion for selected Indian schools.

Why CBSE-i?

A recent tendency on the part of the Indian schools also to opt for International curricula so that students can gainfully compete with learners worldwide. This unit (Board) follows two standards for students: International Baccalaureate (IB) and Cambridge International Education (CIE).

No. of schools with IB - 65 (Approx.)

No. of schools with CIE- 200 (Approx.)

Salient Features-

CBSE-i provides opportunities for extended earning, development of perspectives, research orientation, social perspective through work, activities, and action, and a more liberal approach towards arts education (both visual and performing art). It also provides an alternative approach to mathematics learning at higher levels. Social Science subjects with valuable historical perspectives and components of the countries in which schools are situated will be added features.

Curriculum Design

Curriculum Transaction

Curriculum Assessment

Subjects offered by CBSE-i are English, Second language – anyone of them - (Tamil/French/Hindi), Mathematics (Core and Elective), Science, Social Science, and Information Technology (Additional Subject). The course duration is 1 year for each Grade and the academic year rotates from April to March.

CBSE / CBSE-i

CBSE i - Singapore