Only six papers in SSC public exams from this year

College students showing for the SSC public examinations within the State hereafter will attend solely six papers as a substitute of 11 ranging from the present tutorial yr, 2022-2023. The State authorities on Monday ordered the departments involved to introduce a six-paper sample in alignment with the plan to introduce the Central Board of Secondary Schooling (CBSE) syllabus and put together college students for the 2024-25 CBSE public exams.

Particular Chief Secretary to Govt. (College Schooling) B. Rajsekhar issued a authorities order to this impact. As per the order, the 11-paper sample was launched within the 2016-17 tutorial yr below the Steady and Complete Analysis (CCE) sample and a seven-paper sample was applied within the exams performed in 2021 and 2022 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

A examine by the AP State Council of Academic Analysis and Coaching discovered that there is no such thing as a want to check the scholar extensively within the public examination as one undergoes 4 formative and two terminal exams throughout the yr, the order mentioned. SCERT steered an examination with six or seven papers and in view of the federal government’s coverage of affiliating authorities colleges with CBSE and making ready the primary batch of scholars to put in writing the CBSE public examination in 2024-25, the choice to introduce a six-paper sample just like that of CBSE has been taken.

Within the new sample, Bodily Science and Organic Sciences shall be in the identical paper and reply scripts shall be distributed individually whereas languages and non-languages shall be assessed with one single query paper.

Lecturers’ associations welcomed the federal government’s choice. Municipal Lecturers’ Federation president S. Ramakrishna mentioned that the six-paper sample would profit the scholars and ease the burden on them.