Goa board to cut 30% portion, Class XII in line with CBSE

Gauree Malkarnekar / TNN / Updated: Jul 21, 2020, 07:48 IST

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The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE) on Monday issued a circular to schools informing them that the syllabus of all major subjects from Class IX to XII would be curtailed by 28-30%.

Goa board to cut 30% portion, Class XII in line with CBSE

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PANAJI: The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE) on Monday issued a circular to schools informing them that the syllabus of all major subjects from Class IX to XII would be curtailed by 28-30%.
The board said that for Classes XI and XII, portion will be curtailed in over 33 subjects across all four streams — arts, commerce, science and vocational.

However, for the benefit of students intending to answer national competitive exams, the curtailed portion for Class XII will be in line with parts left out by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), .

The board has also increased the weightage of practical papers for the Class XII exam. “Question papers in all practical subjects — physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, geology, geography and banking — will be of 70 marks instead of 55 from the March 2021 exam,” the board has said.

The board said that although the decision is subject to final approval by the government, it has notified schools right away “to avoid anxiety among students, teachers, heads of institutions and parents” due to the delay in opening of schools thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The final circular will be issued after... suggestions from stakeholders and with the concurrence of the government,” board secretary Bhagirath Shetye told the schools. Goa board is only the

second state board after the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board to go in for syllabus cuts. Earlier this month, CBSE paved the way by cutting the portion for Classes IX to XII by 30%.
Meanwhile, for Classes IX and X, Goa board has curtailed the portion by 28-30% for all first, second and third language subjects, besides mathematics, science and the social sciences. The board said that there will be no change for pre-vocation subjects for these classes, as “the portion is already limited”.
TOI had reported on July 15 that the board’s academic council approved the truncation of the syllabus, a proposal that was discussed a day earlier by board officials with various boards of studies.

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Gauree Malkarnekar

Gauree Malkarnekar, senior correspondent at The Times of India, Goa, maintains a hawk's eye on Goa's expansive education sector. And when she is not chasing schools, headmasters and teachers, she turns her focus to crime. Her entry into journalism was purely accidental: a trained commercial artist, she landed her first job as a graphic designer with a weekly, but less than a fortnight later set aside the brush and picked up the pen. Ever since she has not complained.

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