CBSE starts sending new material for open book exam

October 3, 2013, 12:52 pm


With a view to relieving the students of the burden of mugging up content and helping them acquire the skills of information processing, comprehension, analysis and inference, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has sent new text material for Classes 9 and 11 to schools.

OTBA will be conducted only for Std IX and XI as part of the final exams in March. For Std IX, the OTBA material has been released for all main subjects including English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science and Social Science. For Std XI, the text material is for Geography, Economics and Biology. OTBA will be applicable only to these subjects this year.

The teachers are free to take sample questions to develop more such problems that are based on the text but require answers through application of concepts, further extrapolation, comparison and inference.

After releasing the content for OTBA on Tuesday evening, CBSE’s academic director Sadhana Parashar wrote to schools that the teachers concerned "are expected to read, discuss and analyse" it. She added that the focus of teachers regarding OTBA content must be to understand its objectives and outcomes.