PSEB Board Exam 2021: Punjab Board to reduce syllabus by 30%, know details here

Punjab School Education Board has reduced the syllabus by 30% for the academic year 2020-21. Read further to know more.

The Punjab School School Education Board (PSEB) has announced that it has decided to reduce the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 for the current academic session by up to 30 per cent. The decision was made following the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) announcement of reducing the syllabus for the same classes this academic session to overcome the academic loss that occurred due to coronavirus outbreak and closure of school since mid-March.

A committee comprising subject experts from the PSEB and State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) set up by the school education department has finalised the suggestions to reduce the course load to help students overcome the burden.

School education secretary Krishan Kumar said, "the committee was set up under SCERT director Jagtar Singh last week to take into consideration the views of different stakeholders, including academicians, teachers, and parents, and suggest the reduction in the syllabus for the academic year 2020-21." The exercise will take another two to three days, he said.

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The CBSE had earlier announced that it has reduced the syllabus of Classes 9 to 12 by almost a third to make up for the academic loss.  After CBSE, the Council for the Indian Schools Certificate Examination (CISCE) had also revised its syllabus for the same reason.

The syllabus reduced will also affect the PSEB Board Exams 2021. As per the information, no question will be asked in the PSEB 10th and PSEB 12th exams to be conducted in 2021 from the deducted syllabus. 

The panel comprising subject experts of PSEB and SCERT is going by the CBSE pattern for reduction of up to 30% in syllabus, according to two officials familiar with the committee’s proceedings. “The topics to be dropped from the syllabus have been selected for several subjects, but there is still some work left,” one of them said.

PSEB has uploaded the lists of reduced syllabus topics of several subjects for secondary and senior secondary classes on its official website i.e. pseb.ac.in. Later, the Board removed it. As per the uploaded list of subjects for Class 10, three chapters, including those on the Anglo-Sikh wars and annexation of Punjab, and state’s struggle for freedom, is to be dropped from the history syllabus, besides map work. Similarly, two chapters each are reduced from geography and civics syllabus.

Another PSEB official said the approval of the academic council will be required before any topics or chapters are reduced from the syllabus.

Earlier, the  PSEB had announced that it has cancelled all the pending PSEB 12^th examinations that were postponed due to COVID19 outbreak across the country. The PSEB Class 12 results 2020 will be declared on the basis of ‘best performing subjects formula’.

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