New Delhi, Jul 4,2020: Syllabus for the ICSE and ISC annual exams for the next academic year will be reduced by 25 per cent due to the “significant shortening of the academic year and loss of the instructional hours” as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.
Announcing this, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), the board which conducts the ICSE and ISC annual exams, said in an official notification that “while a number of CISCE affiliated schools have tried to adapt to this changed scenario and have tried to keep alive the teaching learning process through online classes, there has been a significant shortening of the academic year and loss of the instructional hours.”
The Council said the syllabus reduction has been done keeping in mind the linear progression across classes while ensuring that the core concepts related to the subject were retained.
To make up for the loss in instructional hours during the current session 2020-2021, CISCE has worked with its subject experts to reduce the syllabi for all major subjects at the ICSE (Class 10) and ISC (Class 12) levels, the notification further said.
Also, CISCE announced the assessment scheme for pending Class 10 and 12 exams which have been cancelled in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Candidates will be assessed based on best of three marks, percentage subject project work, and subject project. Students will get an average of the best three percentage marks obtained from among the subjects for which board exams have been conducted.
While the subject project category refers to total marks obtained by the candidate in the internal assessment of the papers, the percentage subject project would be percentage of marks obtained by the candidate in the internal assessment of the papers.
Bamako, Jul 3 ,2020: At least 30 people were killed in militants’ attack on four villages in southern Mali, local media reported.
The attack took place in the Bankass area in the Mopti Region on Wednesday. These are localities of Gouari, Djimdo, Panga Dougpou, Dialakanda, all of the localities occupied by Dogons.
The attackers arrived from the Baye area, near the border with Burkina Faso, on four vehicles, the Mali Jet news outlet reported.
The situation in Mali was destabilized in 2012 when the Tuareg militants seized vast territories in the northern part of the country.
The conflict escalated even more over the activities of Islamists, forces loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as well as French interference.