Four year for Nursery is ok but the Delhi Government wants to implement the idea throughout the country. Over 80 percent students of CBSE belong to Delhi only as more than 900 schools in the city are either affiliated with Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) or follow CBSE curriculum. “We welcome the move of the Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to raise minimum age for admission in nursery classes as it will be beneficial for both children and parents. But this should be uniformly implemented across all the states of the country”, Delhi’s Education Minister, Arvinder Singh told fachcha.com.

Reacting upon the recent proposal to raise minimum age for admission in schools, mooted by Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, the Education Minister said that nothing could better for parents and children if all the states implement the proposal but if the proposal is limited for Delhi it is not good for Delhi’s students. “We will not let our students to lag behind for one year in terms of 10+2 or graduation in comparison with students of other students”, Arvinder Singh Said adding that in most of the cases Delhi normally used to follows Centre’s norms in this regard.

It is notable that except Central schools and some other schools, affiliated with CBSE, follow centre’s regulations in this regard but schools in other states (excepts Delhi) follow the regulations of state boards. It is normally discretion of State government in this regard as education comes under the concurrent list of the constitution. And, 85% students come from states’ schools only.

“HRD Minister should also try to increase the age bar for Civil Services, IITs, IIMs and other competitive examinations too”, Arvinder Singh told fachcha.com.

“Imagine the situation if a student of other state completes graduation in just 20 years and our students complete it in 21 year it will affect our student’s competitive edge as well as their career promotion and so many things”, he adds.

Subject related stress is still a big issue among the students of 10th and 12th. CBSE Counseling unit has been receiving maximum number of calls related to the subject related matters especially for Mathematic, Science and Social Sciences. When fachcha.com contacted CBSE counseling unit its counselor though denied to be identified but said that they are receiving maximum number of calls for subject related issues and how to achieve maximum marks in their exams.
“XIIth students are worried about subjects like Mathematics and Science while students of Xth are concerned about social sciences too apart from Mathematics and Science subjects”, told a counselor of CBSE to fachcha.com identifying herself as a ‘representative of CBSE’. “Students are okay with language papers and hardly anyone needs any counseling for language papers”, she said.
Other queries are related to time management, roll numbers, learning process also coming from the students as well as their students, according to another counselor. CBSE is also receiving calls related to grading system and its conversion into numeric system and abolition of 10th board examinations.
CBSE had started first phase of annual counseling from 1st of February to overcome anxiety and examination related stress. 52 Principals, trained counselors, psychologists from CBSE affiliated schools are providing their services through counseling unit of CBSE. They belong to various locations like Delhi, Noida, Chandigarh, Meerut, Jaipur, Faridabad, Bhubaneswar, Vishakhapatnam, Jamnagar, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Bangalore, Guwahati, Pune, Bhilai and other locations. Interested candidate may contact on these numbers for their counseling from 8.00 am to midnight 011- 22236110, 011-22236111, 011-22236112, 011-2223613. They can also visit www.cbse.nic.in for further details in this regard.

CBSE has announced its dates for 12th board and last board (compulsory) examination for 10th classes. Exam will start from 3rd March 2010. While the 12th exam will continue till 8th April the 10th examination will continue till 31st March 2010. All examination have been scheduled for the first shift (i.e. from 10.30 AM). The detail of the date sheet has been given below:

SECONDARY SCHOOL EXAMINATION 2010

WEDNESDAY 3rd MARCH 2010
Music (Code-031, 032, 033, 034, 035, 036)

FRIDAY 5TH MARCH
Social Science (087)

MONDAY 8th MARCH
Language (Code-003, 004, 005, 006, 007, 008, 009, 010, 011, 012, 013, 014, 015, 016, 017, 018, 019, 020, 021, 022, 023, 024, 025, 026, 095, 096, 097, 098, 099, 303)

THURSDAY 11TH MARCH
Mathematics (041)

SATURDAY 13TH MARCH
Painting (049), Elem. Business (154), Elem. Book Keeping & Acc.(254), Typing (354, 454)

MONDAY 15TH MARCH
Home Science (Code-064)

WEDNESDAY 17TH MARCH
Comm. Sanskrit (Code-122)

FRIDAY 19th MARCH
Hindi Course A & B (Code-002, 085)

TUESDAY 23 MARCH
English (Code-101, 184)

FRIDAY, 26TH MARCH
Science (Code-086, 090)

MONDAY 29TH MARCH
Intro. IT (Code-165)

WEDNESDAY 31ST MARCH
Science Pr. (Code-486)

(Disclaimer: This is just for information. For actual details please consult CBSE or your school)