3. Secondary School Certificate, commonly known as SSC.
Public examination taken by students in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat,
Andhra Pradesh and Goa in India.
It is followed by Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC).
Maharashtra State Board of Secondary Education was set up on 1st January 1966.
Regulating secondary education in the state of Maharashtra.
21,000 schools are affiliated to SSC Board as on 2019.
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4. The main objectives of the SSC Board:
To support and enhance the national system of common school education structure
in the state of Maharashtra.
Providing uniform curriculum, common textbooks, examination and academic
innovations.
Flexible scheme of studies suitable to the needs of students based on guidelines of
NCERT and MSCERT followed by in the field of secondary and higher secondary
education.
Board is responsible for formation, and implementation of the rules and regulations,
in accordance to the guidelines set by the state as well as central boards.
Curriculum is not very vast or exhaustive.
Less stressful to the students.
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5. Implementation of the syllabus/curriculum of all the grades, textbooks, exam
schedule, and type.
Responsible for creation of textbooks, scoring of the centralized tests, and
conducting examinations.
State Board are comparatively limited in the content and subjects as compared to
other Boards. (ICSE and CBSE Board)
State language is compulsory.
Seats are reserved in the state recognized colleges and universities.
Hassle free admission process.
Comparatively less expensive.
Board conducts examination twice a year.
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6. 9 divisional boards within the state to represent the state board.
Their duties :
Decide the school/colleges to conduct the final exams.
Appoint the paper setters, translators, custodians (of question papers, and blank
and filled up answer papers) , conductors (transportation), and examiners
(paper checkers).
Nine divisional boards located at Amravati, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Latur,
Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik and Pune.
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8. Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE).
Examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination.
Private board of school education in India.
Every year in the month of November three day seminar of all the principals of ICSE schools
is held.
Syllabus, teaching methods and techniques and evaluation methods etc. are discussed in
detail.
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9. Designed to provide an examination in a course of general education.
In accordance with the New Education Policy 1986 (India) through English.
One of the reputed boards in India.
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10. Full fledge library Compulsory.
Principal is given free hand to decide which books to use in his/her school.
Freedom and flexibility are the main features of ICSE.
No standard wise text books for primary level; list of reference books suggested.
Class has maximum of 40 students.
Students with learning disabilities are given special favour.
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11. Subjects are divided into three groups:
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Group I
(Compulsory subjects)
Group II Group III
English,
History & Civics,
Geography ,
Indian Languages
Any two from mathematics,
Science (Physics, Chemistry &
Bio), as separate subjects.
Environmental studies,
Computer science,
Agricultural science,
Commercial studies,
Technical Drawing,
A modern foreign language,
Economics.
Any one from Computer
Application,
Economics,
Home Science,
Cookery,
Fashion Design.
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12. All subjects have components of internal assessment.
Internal marks are carried out by schools on the basis of project work/assignments.
20% weightage for internal assessment in group I and II and 50% weightage for group III.
In subjects where there are more than one paper eg. Science, the marks obtained in the
subject calculated by taking the average of all the papers(Bio, Chem and Physics) in the
subject.
ICSE results are taken from best of five from six subjects. English marks are compulsory.
ICSE has two papers in English.
Three papers in Science group.
Two papers in Social studies.
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14. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is a national level board of education in
India for public and private schools.
Controlled and managed by Union Government of India.
CBSE schools follow only NCERT curriculum.
Approximately 20,299(2019) schools in India and 220 schools in 28 foreign countries
affiliated to the CBSE.
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15. Standardized curriculum across the country established by the NCERT.
Most entrance exams conducted in the country for college admission follow this
syllabus.
Board exams are OPTIONAL in 10th grade and MANDATORY in 12th Grade.
Favoured by those who constantly relocate within India or even abroad to countries.
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16. Innovations in teaching-learning methodologies by devising student friendly and
student centered paradigms.
Reforms in examinations and evaluation practices.
Skill learning by adding job-oriented and job-linked inputs in curriculum.
Regularly updating the pedagogical skills of the teachers and administrators by
conducting in-service training programmes, workshops, etc.
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17. 1) Languages : Hindi, English, and 32 other languages.
2) Humanities : Geography, History, Economics, Home Science, Sociology, Fine Arts, Political
Science, Fashion Studies, Creative Writing and translation studies and related subjects.
3) Mathematics.
4) Science and Technology : Subjects related to Biology, Chemistry, Physics, ICT,
Information Practices and Web and Multimedia Studies.
5) Health and Physical Education.
6) Visual and Performing arts : Dance, Drama, Music, Drawing, Painting, Crafts and
Sculpture.
7) Commerce : Business Studies, Accountancy, Entrepreneurship, Economics and related
subjects.
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18. There is continuous assessment throughout the year called Formative Assessment (FA)
and one exam in end of the year called Summative Assessment (SA).
There are two semesters :
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FA 1 FA 2
Formative Assessment will consist of
3 activities of 10 marks each
(Weightage : 10 marks)
Individual Activity (Making chart,
model, project, etc)
Group Activity (Skill, Model making,
project presentations etc.)
Pen and paper exam.
Same as above (Final Weightage : 10
marks) Summative Assessment:
Written Exam – (90% Theory, 10%
Practical)
Final weightage – 30 marks
Total marks per semester : 50
Two semesters add up to 100 marks
for the academic year.
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