CBSE TO STOP ISSUING BLUE PRINTS AND SAMPLE QUESTION PAPERS
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In order to discourage the practice of 'teaching to the test ', the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to discontinue the practice of providing Blue Print, Sample Question Papers and Marking Schemes in classes IX and X, with effect from Summative Assessment-II (SA-II) of 2012-13.
The Board used to issue Blue Prints, Sample Question Papers and Marking Schemes in all major subjects in classes IX and X to provide a model template to serve as a guide for entailing uniformity in assessment, proper coverage of the curricula and validity (and therefore reliability) of assessment.
The CBSE provides all schools with sample papers and marking schemes to ensure uniformity in assessment of answer sheets, but it now has reason to believe that the system is actually proving to be a bane. Finally, the board has decided to stop publishing these model templates for the SA-II of Std IX and X from the current academic session (2012-13).There are three things which the board provides to schools for assistance in setting of question papers - one was called blueprint, second was sample question papers and third was the marking scheme. CBSE said the reason it provided these three inputs was to ensure 'uniformity in assessment, proper coverage of the curricula and validity of assessment '.
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