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KV II likely to revert to CBSE pattern

R. Krishnamoorthy

TIRUCHI: Kendriya Vidyalaya II at the Heavy Alloy Penetrator Factory, which switched over to the State Board pattern a couple of years ago to facilitate the entry of its students into professional courses, is likely to revert to the Central Board pattern.

The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan is stated to have contemplated the move, though there has been no official communication yet. However, the subject was reportedly broached at a recent meeting of the principals of Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV) in the State.

This switch-over pattern was unique to a handful of KVs in the State, where the cut-off scores in the Plus Two as well as the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination is taken into consideration for admission to professional courses unlike in other States where only the entrance examination scores are taken into account.

As the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan had earlier considered the proposal of these schools favourably, realising the relative disadvantage faced by CBSE students in scoring lower in their Plus Two examinations vis-à-vis their counterparts under the State Board pattern, the rationale behind the latest move is not yet known.

Reason predicted

Academicians predict that the Supreme Court's direction to the State nullifying its decision to do away with the TNPCEE may have brought forth the decision. The feel that the State, plagued as it is by the multiplicity of entrance examinations and to an extent the syndrome of the liberal valuation of Plus Two Public Examination papers, will ultimately fall in line with the rest of the States as a logical recourse.

Another CBSE institution in Tiruchi which follows the State Board pattern for higher secondary while retaining one section for CBSE pattern, R.S.K. Higher Secondary School at BHEL, is understood to prefer status quo ante. KV I at the Ordnance Factory, Tiruchi, had all along been following only the CBSE pattern.

But, now there is hardly any difference in the syllabi of the two streams. If at all, the State Board pattern has become tougher after the recent syllabi up-gradation and there is now a dire need for a limited dilution, according to a higher secondary teacher.

Interestingly, the comparative advantage the CBSE students enjoy over their counterparts following the State Board pattern in faring well in the All India Engineering Entrance Examinations and IIT Joint Entrance Examinations is hardly noticed. In fact, 18 students from the CBSE section of RSK HSS, comprising 50 per cent of the class strength, not only gained admission into the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, but could also get the course of their choice.

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