CBSE students only attempt five subjects, two of which are languages. Is this not violative of Article 14? ICSE students attempt only two languages and escape from having to attempt Marathi which is the toughest paper for all Mumbaikars; they also can opt for commerce and agriculture instead of maths and science and yet opt for science in junior college - SSC students do not have such luxuries. ICSE kids are declared passed even if they fail in two out of seven subjects - SSC kids have to pass in all their subjects. ICSE kids have a 7th subject - PT/Yoga/Music and what is more they even have 50% internal assessment in these subjects. I think it is high time that SSC parents took the CBSE and ICSE Boards to Court for violating Article 14.
I would like to request to ICSE board to please make their final assessment pattern/decision publically on net and newspapers - for the batch who is in present 10th std and will appear for exam in 2011. Atleast let the confusion end for these students and let them prepare accordingly.
The exclusion of Group III for ICSE means that the subject which board must have included after various inputs by educationists, perhaps for overall development of student and consideration of student's future interests, is totally ignored by the court in order to have equality between students of two boards. Court might have heard argument that student score very well in group III subjects so it could be unfair competetion but did court reaslize that student may be enjoying study of group III so they score well. Why can't SSC board give such opportunity to their students?
Re: Best of Five for ICSE
by s mumbai on Jul 17, 2010 12:00 PM
what is the need of having different boards in a single country...cant there be a common syllabus for all students....icse board is totally uncalled for especially after cbse and state boards were doing the job...icse board have students from rich families who want to just show off and nothing else...
Since they passed in 5 out of 6 and failed in 1 subject, would they be called matriculate? what about the student previously failed in only 1 subject and not pursued further studies, would now they be able to pursue further studies, since the rule is now best of 5...
Even at the risk of being accused of nitpicking, I must say that it is extremely irritating to come across continued use of a wrong expression and that too, by so many including journalists. It is not 'best of 5', it is 'Best 5'.
