CBSE Syllabus

Under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliation Bye-Laws, the following norms are followed in respect of CBSE syllabi:

• For classes I-VIII, schools follow the syllabus on the basis of the curriculum prescribed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)

• For classes IX-X, schools follow the syllabus as per the scheme of studies prescribed by the Board for the Secondary School Examination;

• For classes XI-XII, schools follow the syllabus as per the scheme of studies prescribed by the Board for the Senior School Certificate Examination.

The NCERT textbooks in all the subjects are developed under the National Curriculum Framework-2005 (NCF-2005) which has the approval of the Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE). The Textbook Development Committees comprise of experts from the relevant subject field. The Textbooks developed by the committees are approved by a National Monitoring Committee (NMC) appointed by the Government.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Dr. Shashi Tharoor in Rajya Sabha today.

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