Established in 1929 by a resolution of the government, the Board was an experiment towards inter-state integration and cooperation in the sphere of secondary education.
The Board was reconstituted on 1 July 1962 so as to make its services available to students and various educational institutions in the entire country.
[5] CBSE offers academic subjects in 40 different languages, which are Arabic, Assamese, Bahasa Melayu, Bengali, Bhutia, Bodo, English, French, German, Gujarati, Gurung, Hindi Course-A, Hindi Course-B, Japanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Lepcha, Limboo, Malayalam, Meitei (Manipuri), Marathi, Mizo, Nepali, Odia, Persian, Punjabi, Rai, Russian, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Spanish, Sherpa, Tamang, Tamil, Tangkhul, Telugu AP, Telugu Telangana, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu Course A and Urdu Course B.
The common examination is now called JEE (Main) and is henceforth conducted by National Testing Agency.
[9][10] On 10 November 2017, the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cleared a proposal for the creation of a National Testing Agency (NTA) serving as the premier autonomous body for conducting entrance examinations in the country.
However, an exemption was initially granted for students writing the exam in 2018 as they went through the old CCE system in the previous year.
The cutoffs required to obtain a particular grade in 2018 are listed below:[15] During 2010–2017, when CBSE implemented a CCE (Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation) for Class X students, only the grades obtained by the student were mentioned in the report card in a 9-point grading scale, which translates as below: It is the practice adopted by CBSE of "tweaking" candidates' marks to account for paper difficulties and variations.
This is the reason marks between 25 and 33 are unheard of in subjects like Mathematics, and it also explains why the difference between D1 and D2 cutoff is sometimes very small.
[24][25] For many core subjects, the number of internal choices (wherein students pick one to answer out of two) was increased.
The option of choosing mathematics will be mentioned in the registration form for the class 10 CBSE board examination.
Candidates will be required to select their choice of test while filling out the registration form for the CBSE Class 10 board examination 2020.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a decision on this after a long meeting on 1 June 2021.
[34][35] Later, in a letter dated 5 July 2021, CBSE announced a special scheme of assessment for board examinations of classes X and XII for the session 2021–22.
However, the Term-I examination was criticised by many for having wrong answer keys, tough question papers and wrong or controversial questions, with a question being dropped in Sociology exam of class 12 and a paragraph in the English Language and Literature exam for class 10 by CBSE following which CBSE dropped the experts who set the Sociology and English paper from paper-setting panels.
[39] He asked a student to make a handwritten copy of the question paper (to avoid being traced from the handwriting).
[40] Consequently, the Central Board of Secondary Education has put in place a system of "encrypted" question papers, which are supposed to be printed by the schools half an hour before the exam starts.
[41] According to the official website of CBSE, there are 28 government as well as private affiliated schools in different countries outside India.