CBSE to Provide Counselling for Students

The Central Board of Secondary Education has launched a pre-examination counselling session for all students and parents. Counselling will be provided through telephone, newspapers and also online to help students overcome exam-related stress.

The online counselling will begin from February 1 and will continue up to April 22, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

This is the 19th consecutive year that the CBSE will provide psychological counselling to all students at the time of preparation as well as during the examinations to overcome exam related stress. The Board, in a statement said that this year 76 principals, trained counsellors and psychologists will participate in tele-counselling to address exam-related problems of the students.

Students can reach out to the CBSE toll free helpline at 1800-11-8004 in case of exam-related anxiety, stress or other queries.

CBSE experts will also answer queries of students through weekly ‘Question-Answer’ columns in all major national newspapers in February.

For online advice, students can contact at counselling.cecbse@gmail.com and sugandh.cbse@gmail.com.

For the seventh year, CBSE has arranged counselling for differently-abled children to take care of the needs and anxiety of special children, the statement added.