NAGPUR: The Maharashtra State Board Of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has partially upgraded the syllabi for std XII from the current academic year. Yet, students and teachers feel that it falls short when compared to CBSE.
The state board has upgraded syllabi for physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics to ensure students appearing for the common entrance tests can compete with those from CBSE on a level playing field. The remaining subjects will be upgraded next academic session.
Sameer Phale, lecturer at Ambedkar College (Deekshabhoomi), said, "There is certainly a difference between the books of our state board and that of the CBSE. First if you just look at the thickness the variation is visible. CBSE books are much thicker. The reason is that CBSE teaches each topic in much greater detail than us."
The CBSE syllabi is set according to the recommendations of the National Council for Educational Research and Training ( NCERT).
The state board's chairman Sarjerao Jadhav however disagrees. "We have taken great efforts to upgrade our syllabi. All the topics that are mentioned in the syllabi are at par with any other board," he said.
The process of upgrading the state's syllabi to bring it at par with that of CBSE started a few years ago. Gradually each year successive classes saw their syllabi upgraded, with Std XII being done this year. The common syllabi is being prepared with a view to facilitate a common entrance test. The central government had been pushing for single entrance tests for medical and engineering undergraduate courses, and had urged states to ensure a common syllabi.
The first common test, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), for medical undergraduate course kicks off from next year and Maharashtra students too will participate. But some students believe that the state's syllabi has still not been upgraded. Two such students from Nagpur have knocked on the judiciary's doors against NEET citing syllabi as one of the reason.
While the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has given time to the respondents till December 13, it observed that "prima facie we find that the policy of holding NEET can't be flouted. However prior to doing that we are of the view that it will be necessary that the syllabi for entire country is common and the students should be put on same level before they appeared in the test".
The state board has upgraded syllabi for physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics to ensure students appearing for the common entrance tests can compete with those from CBSE on a level playing field. The remaining subjects will be upgraded next academic session.
Sameer Phale, lecturer at Ambedkar College (Deekshabhoomi), said, "There is certainly a difference between the books of our state board and that of the CBSE. First if you just look at the thickness the variation is visible. CBSE books are much thicker. The reason is that CBSE teaches each topic in much greater detail than us."
The CBSE syllabi is set according to the recommendations of the National Council for Educational Research and Training ( NCERT).
The state board's chairman Sarjerao Jadhav however disagrees. "We have taken great efforts to upgrade our syllabi. All the topics that are mentioned in the syllabi are at par with any other board," he said.
The process of upgrading the state's syllabi to bring it at par with that of CBSE started a few years ago. Gradually each year successive classes saw their syllabi upgraded, with Std XII being done this year. The common syllabi is being prepared with a view to facilitate a common entrance test. The central government had been pushing for single entrance tests for medical and engineering undergraduate courses, and had urged states to ensure a common syllabi.
The first common test, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), for medical undergraduate course kicks off from next year and Maharashtra students too will participate. But some students believe that the state's syllabi has still not been upgraded. Two such students from Nagpur have knocked on the judiciary's doors against NEET citing syllabi as one of the reason.
While the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has given time to the respondents till December 13, it observed that "prima facie we find that the policy of holding NEET can't be flouted. However prior to doing that we are of the view that it will be necessary that the syllabi for entire country is common and the students should be put on same level before they appeared in the test".
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