1 Class 10th board exams are necessary. It is only a Political Agenda for Politicians.

This will deprive all poor good students against any ranking and will allow politicians/ governmental Officers to play with the lives of good poor children. Because now they can not compete in Board. Board exam will give a little tension only. At least, if X board exam is there, 12th Board exam will be easy for the students, as they have already faced some bord exam. otherwise, first time straight away 12th board children will become very nervous. If X board exam is there, students will study. School level exam means, there will not be a uniform level of measurement. In schools partiality and all will start the class 10th exams is considered to be a major milestone in the life of student. scrapping the board exam for this would not be feasible since it is considered in India that a person is literate when he has passed out the 10th public exam.but if this public exam is removed ,then a it becomes compulsory for under poverty people to attend the 12 th board..which might be difficult to them . aiso students would be unaware of the public exams to be faced .

Todays scenario is, we see a million competing in AIEEE, what next a bunch of 5 million students, many of em who shudnt even b there.

2. Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal recently stated that the government is thinking of doing away with the class 10th Board exams and making them optional, with just one Board exam in class 12th. In fact, Kapil Sibal also wants to do away with class 12th exams. Makes me wonder whether hes doing all this just for publicity, now that people bother listening to him as the HRD minister instead of minister for science and technology. Frankly, I dont think thats a really good idea. Im sorry if youre

someone studying in class 10th and below but listen kid, you really need that exam. Sure, the Board exams do generate a bit of tension among students. Thats just how life is. Life throws challenges at you and you are supposed to learn to surmount those challenges. There isnt a magic wand to wish away and make some challenge in life optional. A nationwide standardized exam helps everyone find out where they standvis a vis a student in some other corner of the country or your classmate standing right next to you. Lets assume for a moment that this hare-brained scheme goes ahead and the class Xth Board exams are actually abolished. What exactly is that going to achieve in reducing tension? Absolutely nothing at all! In class 12th, students are thinking of what career they want to take up, what college they want to join, preparing for entrance exams for engineering / medical / law / othersand in that mix you want to say that giving the Board exams for the first time in your life is going toreduce tension?! I dont think so. Doing away with in class 10th is simply postponing fate. As a student whos passed out of school, I myself know that yes Board exams can make you nervous, but I was less jittery about it in class 12th because Id already attempted a similar exam two years earlier. Having to sit for Board exams for the first time in your life in class XIIth is going to put

an incredible amount of pressure on students when they have other things on their minds. Many students currently studying in class 10th have said to me that they dont get why theyre supposed to study this or that topic for their Board exams when it has nothing to do with what they want to do later in life. Look, the Board exams are not here to teach you skills that you need in your career thats what you go to college for. School (and the Board exams) are there to teach about things like getting your point across to someone you dont know precisely and concisely, learning to analyse things and assigning importance to them (youre gravely mistaken if you assign equal importance to all topics), learning to make study notes, learning to manage a schedule, et al. This is what education up to class 10th is about. Class Xth Board exams also help you to choose streams to take up in the +2 leg of your schooling. During that year you realize OK, so Im interested [and / or] good at X subject but subject Y doesnt interest me, so this is what I can consider taking as my stream. Without a standard exam, it becomes difficult for students to find that out too. Each and every schools exams and standards are pretty arbitrary and unique up to class 8 when they have a free reign. Without a standard syllabus even students wont be able to find out whether theyre

actually interested in a subject. Yes, I know about national curriculum guidelines for lower classes to but thats just pure bollocks; no school really bothers following the national curriculum until the spectre of Board exams comes up. Am I trying to say that the current system is perfect and theres nothing we need to do to make life even that tiny bit easier for those about to give Board exams? Of course not. There are a lot of educationists in this country who are genuinely working on making things better so lets not be cynical about everything. CBSE is not out to get you. They are genuinely trying to change things but are often restricted by what can be practically implemented across every school under them. Look, Ive been through that phase myself and I know how it feels. The major worry, at the end of the day, is along the lines of I hope I get the marks Im expecting. Every year when the Board results are declared theres lots of anguish about top students getting lower marks than expected in some subject or the other (usual