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: The Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) will allow CBSE students who opt for the school-conducted Class X test, not just the board’s exams, to seek admission to the ISC course for this academic year.After the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) decided to make the Class X board exams optional and offered students the choice to appear either for the board exams or those conducted by individual schools, the CISCE said it would not take in the students who cleared the school-based exams. According to the new CBSE rules, which came into effect in the 2010-11 academic year, students who want to change board can appear for the board exams and those who wish to remain in the same school can take the school-conducted test. The CBSE, however, issued the same mark sheets for both sets of students. “The CBSE had offered the students the choice of remaining in their schools or opting for a different board by making the Class X board exams optional. But since this was the first year, many students who had taken the school-conducted test changed their minds after the results were published and applied for admission in ISC schools,” a source said. Gerry Arathoon, the additional secretary and officiating chief executive of the CISCE, said: “A circular informing the principals about our new decision will be sent to all ISC schools shortly.” The CISCE’s earlier decision had triggered confusion among the authorities of ISC schools. Many principals had said the decision was “unclear” to them .The new move was finalised at the CISCE’s general body meeting in Delhi yesterday. Arathoon said the decision would be valid for the 2011-12 academic year. “We will thoroughly review the matter after a year before taking a final decision on whether we will continue allowing the CBSE students who have appeared for the school-conducted exams to apply for the ISC course in future,” he said. After a large number of CBSE students who took the school-based exams approached the ISC schools for admission to Class XI, the CISCE decided to review its decision. “Ours is a student-friendly board. We have revoked our earlier decision considering the plight of a number of CBSE students, especially those whose parents are doing transferable jobs,” Arathoon said over the phone from Delhi today. Arathoon said “several parents and students did not know how things would pan out”. “Considering the confusion among the students and parents, we have decided to keep our earlier decision on hold for this year,” he added. Note :I have taken this news from the The telegraph for helping students |
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