A post is widely being shared on social media claiming that according to the New Education Policy 2020, government has announced to do away with 10th board exams.
The post reads, “*The Cabinet has approved the New Education Policy 2020.* Education policy has been changed after 34 years. The remarkable things about the new education policy are as follows: *5 Years Fundamental* 1. Nursery @ 4 Years 2. Jr KG @ 5 Years 3. Sr KG @ 6 Years 4. Std 1st @ 7 Years 5. Std 2nd @ 8 Years *3 Years Preparatory* 6. Std 3rd @ 9 Years 7. Std 4th @ 10 Years 8. Std 5th @ 11 Years *3 Years Middle* 9. Std 6th @ 12 Years 10.Std 7th @ 13 Years 11.Std 8th @ 14 Years *4 Years Secondary* 12.Std 9th @ 15 Years 13.Std SSC @ 16 Years 14.Std FYJC @ 17Years 15.STD SYJC @ 18 Years *Special and important things:* *Board will be in 12th class only, MPhil will be closed, college degree of 4 years* *10th Board exams will not be there, MPhil will also be closed,* *Now students up to 5th will be taught in mother language, local language and national language only. The rest of the subjects, even if they are English, will be taught as a subject.**Now only the board exams have to be taken in the 12th standard. Whereas before it was mandatory to take the 10th board examination, which would not happen now*. *Examination will be done in the semester from 9th to 12th class. Schooling will be taught under the 5 + 3 + 3 + 4 formula.* *College degree will be 3 and 4 years old. That is, certificate will be given on first year of graduation, diploma on second year, degree in third year.* *3-year degree is for those students who do not have to take higher education. At the same time, students doing higher education will have to do a 4-year degree. Students doing 4 years degree will be able to do MA in one year.* *Now students will not have to do MPhil. Rather MA students will now be able to do PHD directly.**Board exam will not be conducted for 10th.**Students will be able to take other courses in between. By 2035 the gross enrollment ratio will be 50 percent in higher education. At the same time, under the new education policy, if a student wants to do another course in the middle of a course, then he can take a second course by taking a break for a limited time from the first course.**Many improvements have also been made in higher education. Improvements include graded academic, administrative and financial autonomy. Apart from this, e-courses will be started in regional languages. Virtual labs will be developed. A National Educational Scientific Forum (NETF) will be started. Please tell that there are 45 thousand colleges in the country.**Uniform rules will be for all government, private, deemed institutions.*As per order: -*(Honorable Minister of Education, Government of India)*”)
The link to the post can be seen here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile did a fact-check and found the claim to be fake.
National Education Policy 2020 focuses on five pillars: Affordability, Accessibility, Quality, Equity and Accountability – to ensure continual learning.
The education.gov.in website also uploaded details about National Education Policy 2020 which shows that the the policy provides greater flexibility, student choice, and best-of-two attempts, assessments that primarily test core capacities must be the immediate key reforms to all Board exams.
We could not find any detail which mentioned that Class 10 Board Examinations were cancelled. We could not find any media report either to suggest that Board exams were cancelled according to NEP 2020.
PIB Fact Check also tweeted and refuted the viral claim. “A #Whatsapp message claims that according to the New Education Policy, there will be no board exams for class 10th. #PIBFactCheck: This claim is #fake. @EduMinOfIndia has not issued any such order,” the Tweet read.
Hence, we can ascertain that the government has not cancelled board exams according to NEP 2020; the viral claim is false.
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