‘By 2025, CBSE board exams will be entirely different’, says Pokhriyal in address to Indian Education Summit 2021

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank began his inaugural address on the day 1 of Indian Education Summit 2021. The three-day virtual conference dedicated to discussing the future of education begins today. From schools and colleges shut down due to the pandemic to the launch of the National Education Policy 2020 – the sector has undergone a complete overhaul in the past year.

Under NEP 2020, students will be taught self-reliance right from the school level. There are several overhauls including learning vocational courses from class 6, the introduction of artificial intelligence from the school level, freedom of choosing one’s own subjects at the college level, and setting up of Academic Credit Bank where students who have



drop-out can resume education from where they left, said Pokhriyal.

Talking about the debate on teaching in the regional language, the Education Minister said, no language will be imposed on any student and they will have the freedom to chose.

If questions are more fact-based the meaning of assessment is superficial. If we pose open-ended questions where the child implies his/her concepts where a child focuses on thinking, the assessment will change, said Sumeeta Ghosh, Head - Ed-tech, Enlearn Xperiential Learning System, Heritage School. By 2025 there will be a completely different type of Board questions as under NEP the govt has asked to add 10% application-based questions every year, added Ashutosh Batta, Chairman, Bloom Public School.