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CBSE board exam Term 1 in November to be MCQ-based, extra circle on OMR sheet

The CBSE board exams will be held twice a year from the academic year 2021-22 onwards and students of Classes 10 and 12 are now waiting for the CBSE datesheet for Term 1. It is expected to be released on CBSE's official website -- cbse.gov.in around three to four days after October 9, which is the last date for the board to receive the complete list of candidates. 

The CBSE first term exam would be held in November-December 2021 and the paper will only test students on the rationalised syllabus, i.e., 50% of the total syllabus which has already been specified. 

The Term 2 exam will be held in the month of March-April 2022. 

The guidelines for CBSE Term 1 would be sent to all stakeholders as soon as CBSE has finalised the complete exam scheme. 

CBSE board exam paper pattern 

The CBSE Term 1 question paper will have multiple choice questions (MCQs) which would also include case-based, and assertion-reasoning type MCQs.  

Instead of the earlier 3 hours, the duration of each paper would be 90 minutes. 

As per confirmed reports, different subjects will have different numbers of questions but the marks for each question would be the same. Students will also have options and wouldn’t need to answer all the questions. 

The questions would include case-based, and assertion-reasoning type MCQs as well which would evaluate the students properly on their syllabus content.

The CBSE Term 2 board exam would have subjective questions and the duration of each paper would be 120 minutes. 

Each CBSE board exam student would be evaluated on the combination of their results in the Term 1 and Term 2 board exams. 

Schools will themselves be conducting the CBSE Term 1 practical exams while the CBSE Term 2 practical exams would likely be carried out by the evaluators sent by the board. 

As per confirmed reports, CBSE is also thinking of the possibility of conducting the board exams in the home schools of students or in nearby exam centres due to the Covid-19 situation. 

Extra circles on OMR sheet 

The CBSE board exam for Term 1 would be only MCQ-based and CBSE PRO Rama Sharma confirmed that an extra circle would be provided for each question on the OMR sheets.

This is because students would be only able to use pens to mark the correct options in the OMR sheets. 

In case of any mistake, students can strike out the wrong circle, shade the correct circle, and then write the answer number of the correct option in the extra circle provided for each question on the OMR sheet. 

CBSE would be using a combination of intelligent character recognition (ICR) and optical mark recognition (OMR) techniques to evaluate such responses.

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