NEP 2020 will focus on making exams test competencies and not memorisation skills. Read furtehr to know the details.
NEP 2020: The Cabinet in a meeting on July 29 passed the new National Education Policy by scrapping the 34-year-old education policy. With NEP 2020, the education system in India would witness a large number of changes. One of the biggest changes that comes with the National Education Policy is the low priority of exams in favour of a more holistic learning and assessment pattern and allowing students to appear for exams even board exams, twice a year.
Human Resource and Development Minister and Education Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said in an interview that board exams for classes 10 and 12 would be easier and students will be allowed to appear for them twice a year. The same was also suggested in the draft education policy as well.
NEP 2020 will focus on making exams test competencies and not memorisation skills.. The minister further added, “All students will be allowed to take the board examination twice during any school year to eliminate the higher risk aspect of final examinations. A main examination and an improvement will be allowed if necessary.”
The new National Education Policy will also bring further changes in the future such as modular or semester-wise board exams, separate exams for objective and subjective-type questions, and exams at different levels of difficulty. Other major changes in the NEP 2020 includes a 5+3+3+4 structure for school education instead of 10+2, extension of free education until the age of 18, a single regulator for higher education institutions except for law and medical colleges, merging of different streams so there is no strict divide, and many more.
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