CCE stands for Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation. It is comprehensive because the evaluation is exhaustive and is done on many levels and since the evaluation is all year round, it is continuous.
Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation is divided into 3 parallel parts:
Part 1: This part deals with performance in academic subjects like Science, Maths, and English. Instead of marks, grades are given based on your performance all through the year.
The academic year is divided into two sessions, in each session, there are Formative and Summative Assessments (FA, SA). The school has liberty in deciding the number of Formative assessments and their percentage by weight, but at the end of the evaluation, the students get a grade for each subject instead of marks. What CBSE has also done is that instead of focusing only on the 5 primary subjects, it has increased the scope by adding 3 more subjects to the Scholastic part - Work Experience, Art Education and Physical Education. For these additional subjects, teachers can give grades and a descriptive indicator explaining the student’s performance, which tell about a student's interests and competencies apart from academics.
Part 2: This part deals with Co-Scholastic areas such as Life Skills, Attitude and Values. For each of the co-scholastic skills, teachers are again required to give a Grade and a descriptive indicator. Schools can expand these, for example, Life Skills can include Thinking Skills, Social Skills and Emotional Skills. Attitude can be judged towards teachers, peers and environment. This part of the CCE aims to tell the students and parents that it is not just the education that is important for an overall development of a child during the schooling years.
Part 3: This part deals again deals with Co-Scholastic Activities. The idea behind this part is to give simple grades based on activities performed / participated in during the year. This part is divided into two sections a) Literary / Creative / Scientific / Aesthetic Skills, Performing Arts, Clubs etc b) Health & Physical Education. Teachers are expected to grade students on their involvement with these activities during the year. Students can stick with areas like literary skills like debates and declamations or even showcase their talents in more creative fields like art, craft and drama. This way, this part again promotes development of a child in areas other than
academics.
Summary of CCE is done in the table below:
No marks, only grades.
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All students will now be evaluated on a 9-point scale
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Students with grades ‘D’ and above will qualify to get promoted to the next class.
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Assessment in school will be divided into 2 terms- April to September and October to March
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For students of class X the dreaded ‘Board Exams’ become optional.
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