The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has devised a tool to calculate students’ global aptitude index. The index will help students in deciding their career choices as taking board exams is not mandatory any more.
The CBSE will be having a series of tests for Standard X students, which will check their social, scientific, numerical, art and behavioural science aptitude and other interest areas.
It will be a paper and pencil test for not more than two and a half hours. The board decided to have such a test after conducting a random survey in schools to check if parents were aware of aptitude tests.
The survey results were shown to a psychiatrist, psychologist and experts in psychometric, after which the index was designed. It will be an aptitude and interest test designed specially for the CBSE students.
Deepshikha Srivastava, principal of Rajhans Vidyalaya, Andheri, said, “Since the choice of subjects for students was based on the scores they got in Standard X board exams, it was a need of the hour. Parents believe that high scorers should be opting for science, even if they do not have the aptitude for the subject. Subjects in arts and commerce are not sought after by high scorers.” She added that the schools have been asked to submit the list of students who are in Standard X for the test. The last date for submission of names is November 15.
The board, however, specifies that the index should be just considered an indicator and not the final aptitude. “It should initiate a dialogue between the teachers and students or between counsellors and students,” said an official.
Dnaindia.com
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