New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is considering increasing the number of One-Mark Questions from 10 to 15 in the Class 10 & 12 Board examinations from next year.
This move is expected to take shape in the 2008-2009 academic session.
Mr. Ashok Ganguly, Chairman of CBSE said, “The decision to add the number of questions in one marker’s will only be implemented after assessing the nature of the question paper, results and the feedback from various academic institutions.”
Ms. Rashmi Saxena, a physics teacher said that, “CBSE added the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in questions, which were divided into two parts. In such questions, students needed to apply the ‘theme’ (or application) than writing laws or formulae.”
Mr. Ganguly added that, “The most important feature of HOTS is that it contains ‘something’ or the other for every student appearing for the examination. HOTS is one paper which does not require students to mug up the chapters. This year, an average student scored good marks in the examination because of these HOTS questions.”
This year, all HOTS questions were included in one-mark questions only.
Out of total number of questions, 20 percent of questions were based on HOTS, making it a 30 percent change in the exam model.
Source: indiaedunews.net
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