Subject: Amendments in Examination Bye Laws

NO.: COORD/DS/SO-K/F-8/2006 25.10.2006

NOTIFICATION

Subject: Amendments in Examination Bye Laws

In pursuance of the recommendations of the Examination Committee held on 26.3.2006 & 7.6.2006 and the same having been duly ratified by the Governing Body of the Board in its meeting held on 30.6.2006 , the following amendments/additions have been made in the Examination Bye-laws:

1. Amendment in Rule 13.1(i) & (ii) of Chapter 4 under Regular Course of Study

Rule 13.1(i): The expression “a regular course of study” referred to in these Bye-Laws means at least 75% of attendance in the Classes held counted from the day of commencing teaching of Classes IX/X/XI/XII as the case may be upto the Ist of the month preceding the month in which the examination of the School/Board commences. Candidates taking up a subject(s) involving practicals shall also be required to have put in at least 75% of the total attendance for practical work in the subject in the laboratory. Heads of Institutions shall not allow a candidate who has offered subject(s) involving practicals to take the practical examination(s) unless the candidate fulfills the attendance requirements as given in this Rule.

Rule 13.1(ii): The candidate who had failed in the same examination in the preceding year and who rejoins Classes IX/X/XI/XII shall be required to put in 75% of attendance calculated on the possible attendance from the Ist of the month following the publication of the results of that examination by the School/ Board upto the Ist of the month preceding the month in which the examination of the School/Board commences.

2. Amendment in Rule 13.2(i) of Chapter 4 under Requirement of Attendances in Subjects of Internal Assessment

Rule 13.2(i): No student from a School affiliated to the Board shall be eligible to take the examination unless he has completed 75% of attendances counted from the opening of class IX/X/XI/XII upto the first of the month preceding the month in which the examination commences in the subjects of internal assessment.

3. Amendment in Rule 43 (ii) of Chapter 7 under Additional Subject(s)

Rule 43(ii): However, candidates appearing in six subjects at the Senior School Certificate Examination having been declared “Pass” by virtue of securing pass marks in five subjects as per Rule 40.1 (iv) may appear in the failing subject at the Compartment Examination to be held in July/August the same year.

4. Amendment in Rule 53(i) of Chapter 8 under Head Examiners

Rule 53(i): The Chairman shall appoint a senior person in the rank of Principal, Vice-Principal, Post Graduate Teacher of an affiliated school or a Lecturer/Reader in a College as Head Examiner for a subject/paper.

RULES ADDED

5. Addition in Rule 40.1(vi) of Chapter 7 under Pass Criteria (Senior School Certificate Examination)

Rule 40.1(vi): In order to be declared as having passed the Class XI Examination a candidate shall obtain 33% marks in all the subjects. The pass marks in each subject of examination shall be 33%. In case of subject involving practical work a candidate must obtain 33% marks in theory and 33% in practical separately in addition to 33% marks in aggregate in order to qualify in that subject.

6. Addition in Rule 41.1(vi) of Chapter 7 under Pass Criteria (Secondary School Examination)

Rule 41.1(vi): In order to be declared as having passed Class IX Examination a candidate shall obtain 33% marks in all the subjects. The pass marks in each subject of examination shall be 33%.

7. Amendment in Rule 71 of Chapter 11 under ‘Equivalence’ by adding S.No.66

66. REPUBLIC OF KOREA:

12 Year High School Diploma (Certificate of

Graduation) (accredited school) under the aegis of

the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea. +2 stage examination

(M.C. SHARMA)

CONTROLLER OF EXAMINATIONS

Copy to:

1. Heads of all the affiliated institutions of the Board.

2. The Director of Education, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Old Secretariat, Delhi – 110054

3. The Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, 18, Institutional Area, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi – 110016

4. The Secretary, Central Tibetan School Administration, EFF, ESS Plaza, Sector 3, Rohini, Delhi-85

5. The Additional Director General, Director General of Army Education, A-Wing, Sena Bhawan, DHQ-PO, New Delhi

6. The Deputy Director of Education, Border Security Force, Block – 10, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003.

7. The Secretary, AWES, Army Headquarters, Adjutant General Branch CW-4, Army Welfare Education Society, West Block No.3, R.K. Puranm, New Delhi-110022

8. The Secretary & Director Education, Govt. of Sikkim, Gangtok (Sikkim) – 737101

9. The Director of Education, Andaman and Nicobar Island, Port Blair-744101

10. The Director of School Education, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh, Civil Sectt. Ita Nagar-791111, Arunachal Pradesh

11. The Director, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, A-28, Kailash Colony, New Delhi-110048.

12. The Director of Public Instruction, Chandigarh Administration, Sector-9, Chandigarh-160017

13. All the HODs and other Officers of CBSE

14. E.O. to Chairman, CBSE

15. All the Regional Officers of the CBSE.

16. All the Education Officers of the CBSE

17. Joint Secretary(IT), CBSE with a request to put the circular on the Website.

18. Education Officer(Humanities), CBSE with a request to get the circular printed in the forthcoming issue of CENBOSEC.

CONTROLLER OF EXAMINATIONS

NO.: COORD/DS/SO-K/F-8/2006 25.10.2006

To Heads of all the

Affiliated schools of the Board

Sir/Madam,

A. In pursuance of the recommendations of the Examination Committee held on 7.6.2006 and the same having been duly ratified by the Governing Body of the Board in its meeting held on 30.06.2006 , the following decisions may kindly be noted and circulated to all concerned:

1. Rule 43(ii) of the Examination Bye-laws given in the Notification No. CE/COORD/DS-P/SO-K/F-8/2006 dated 29.9.2006 relating to Additional Subject(s) may be read along with Rule 40.1(iv). It means that a candidate who has offered and appeared in six subjects and in order to make him/her eligible for passing the examination, one of the main subject(out of first five mentioned in the List of Candidates/Application form) has been replaced with the Additional subject(Column 6 of the List of Candidates/Application form), such a candidate is eligible to appear in the failing subject at the Compartment examination to be held in July/August in the same year.

2. FEES FOR VERIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS

An amount of Rs.100/- per candidate for verification of Statement of Marks/Certificate of Class X or XII or both for a particular candidate has been levied for documents sent by different Organizations/Universities/Govt. Deptts. etc.

3. The failed/compartmental/Improvement candidates who will appear in 2007 examination in Science & Technology at Secondary School level would not have to appear for practical activities of 20 marks and internal assessment of 20 marks, they will be permitted to appear for the theory examination consisting of 60 marks as per the Secondary School Curriculum prescribed for 2007 examination and the theory marks obtained by these candidates out of 60 will be computed to be out of 100 through Computer Programme at the finalization of result. This facility is being extended to the failure candidates of 2006 examination appearing for the 2nd Chance Comptt. Exam in March/April 2007 and Third Chance Comptt. in July 2007.

4. Since the certificates issued by NIOS, New Delhi for Classes X & XII have been recognized by the Board, certificates issued by the Rajasthan State Open School have also been recognized at par with those of CBSE.

B. The following decision has been taken in the Meeting of the Finance Committee held on 21.06.2006 and duly ratified by the Governing Body at its meeting held on 30.06.2006 :

The examination fee for Regular candidates has been enhanced as under

Existing Revised

1. Class X & XII under Delhi Scheme – Rs.200/- Rs.220/-

2. Class X & XII under All India Scheme – Rs.300/- Rs.350/-

All Heads of the Schools are requested to take note of the amendments for guidance to their teachers/students.

Yours faithfully,