The board also has made comprehensive changes in its evaluation system by making the whole process quicker, with the reforms focused on "error-free evaluation”.
Indian schools following CBSE stream in Qatar said they have not got any information regarding the proposed changes but will work out the academic schedule accordingly when the exams schedules are announced.
The board's plan comes in the wake of several complaints about glaring errors in the whole practice of the examinations and the evaluation process.
Quoting CBSE chairman R K Chaturvedi, leading Indian daily Times of India reported that the process of evaluation will not drag over 45 days but is expected to be completed within a month.
“This would also advance the date of declaration of results, which generally come around the third or fourth week of May. The examinations should start around February15 and we are also planning to complete them within a month," the official has been quoted as saying.
The early results, the board believes, will also help CBSE students with the undergraduate admission process as there were many complaints from anxious and angry students who were looking for admissions for higher education due to the delay in getting the results on time.
"By April, vacations begin in India and experienced teachers are not available. Therefore, advancing evaluation to mid-March will ensure we have the best teachers checking the answer scripts. Otherwise, in April during vacations, schools offer us only temporary, ad-hoc and newly-appointed teachers for the evaluation exercise as experienced teachers do not oblige," said the chairman.
The CBSE official also noted that the early evaluation of the answer scripts will enable the board to prepare the final results in a far more relaxed manner and do away with many of the clerical and other human errors that might occur in the whole process.
Under the new scheme, the CBSE is expecting the best and experienced teachers to come for evaluation and it is also going to conduct two training sessions for the evaluators.
"Just like teachers' training, we are planning two evaluators' training sessions each year starting December 2017," said Chaturvedi.
According to the CBSE official, around 50,000 teachers are engaged in the evaluation process across 2,000 centres yearly. Most of the centres are at Kendriya Vidyalayas.
Several Doha-based parents and students welcomed the idea but some of them expressed doubts whether the schools can schedule it effectively.
One parent said, “It is a good idea and can benefit the students very well. Moreover most schools in Qatar finish their class 11 examinations in February. They can easily follow the same pattern in classes 10 and 12.”
Another parent noted, “Even though schools plan to finish the syllabus in class 12 by early November, in many schools it goes on until mid-December. If that is the case, students will be left with little time for self-study. So we have to see how the schools cope with it."
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India's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is planning to schedule its board examinations for class 10 and 12 in February instead of March from the academic year 2018-2019.
