UP Board Exams 2021: UP Board releases reduced syllabus; Check UP 10th 12th revised syllabus for 2020-21 here

Uttar Pradesh Board has released the list of the reduced syllabus for the current academic year for classes 9 to 12. Read further to know where to check.

The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) has finally released the much-awaited syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 in accordance with the UP government's decision to reduce the syllabus for the current academic session by 30 per cent. Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh government has directed the Board to reduce the syllabus on the basis of the number of working days of school. Now, the details of the reduced syllabus have been uploaded by the UPMSP on its official website, i.e. upmsp.edu.in. As per the officials, the syllabus has been uploaded to help students enrolled in over 28,000 affiliated schools across the state. It is also been done to complete UP 10th Board Syllabus and UP 12th Board Syllabus on time to help students prepare for their UP Board Exams 2021.

Earlier, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has cut down 30 per cent of the syllabus as a one-time measure for the year 2020-21 for classes 9 to 12 considering the reduction in classroom teaching time due to coronavirus outbreak that leads to the closure of schools. After CBSE, many stated in the country have opted for a reduction of the syllabus by 30 per cent for the current academic year. The syllabus reduced will also affect the UP Board Exams 2021. As per the information, no question will be asked in the UP 10th and UP 12th exams to be conducted in 2021 from the deducted syllabus. 

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As per the revised syllabus, the students of UP 12th Arts stream will not be studying the 'Ninda Ras', a well-known satirical piece penned by Harishankar Parsai in Hindi prose. Along with this, they will also not study noted play of William Shakespeare 'Minister of Venice'. Some works of well-known Hindi authors like Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Sumitranandan Pant, Maithili Sharan Gupt and Ramdhari Singh Dinkar have also been omitted from their syllabus for this year. However the students will not entirely miss out studying works of these Hindi literary greats as some of their works have been retained in their syllabus, officials said.

Commenting on the syllabus reduction, UP Board Secretary Divyakant Shukla, he said, “Efforts have been made to keep the cuts balanced. We are also open to constructive suggestions in the topics and chapters omitted for the year. Such suggestions would be duly considered by our panel of subject experts and necessary changes made if found to have weight."

In UP 10th Hindi prose, three chapters have been cut out of the total seven chapters. This includes ‘Irsha Tu Na Gayi Mere Man Se’ by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, ‘Kya Likhoo’ by Padumlal Punnalal Bakshi and ‘Pani Mein Chanda Aur Chand Par Aadmi’ by Jaiprakash Bharti have been kept out. In Hindi petry's section, 13 chapters have been omitted completely like  ‘Bharat Mata Ka Mandir Hai Ye’ by Maithili Sharan Gupt, ‘Nadi’ by Kedarnath Singh and ‘Yuva Jungle’ by Ashok Vajpeyi.

In UP 10th English prose, ‘A Torchbearer’ by Edith Wharton and ‘Our Indian Music’ by R Srinivasan while in poetry works like ‘The Nation Builders’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson and from supplementary reader chapters like ‘My Greatest Olympic Prize’, a short story describing Jesse Owens’ experience at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin have been kept out. In Science, topics like ‘Metals and non-Metals’, ‘Periodic classification of elements’, ‘Effect of current’, ‘Magnetic effects of current’ and ‘Natural Resources’ have been omitted while in Mathematics ‘Trigonometric identities’, ‘Sequences and series’ etc as well as chapters like ‘The age of Industrialisation’, ‘ Political Parties’, ‘Currency and credit’ in social science have been kept out.

In UP Class 12th History subject, chapters including ‘Colonialism’ and ‘Understanding partition’ while in civics lessons like ‘US Hegemony’, ‘Security in contemporary world’ and ‘Politics in Independent India’ etc have been kept out or this year. Similarly, chapter on ‘Globalisation and social changes’ in sociology has also been omitted.

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