New Delhi: This is a time when pedagogy is being constantly revised to make it less cumbersome for students, curriculum is designed to ease their burden and new-age methodology is being introduced to make course work engaging and less heavy for school students. This is also the time when the two primary Indian school education boards – CBSE and CISCE – seem to have a different blueprint for students and the future that beholds. With outright emphasis on the competency-based questions format that both Boards have employed for students appearing for their class 10 and 12 this year, one thing is loud and clear; while we steer clear from the rote learning methodology for good, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to make its implementation or transition a smooth one.

While the former has been put in place, it is the latter where we may have faltered. As was felt by some students who appeared for the ISC Maths paper held on March 3. Most students found the question paper to be lengthy, confusing and tough. “Even the MCQs needed a lot of thorough reasoning and calculations,” says Abhaya, from Ryan International School in Noida. He added that while the school had informed students about the increased number of CBQs in the paper, students couldn’t cope with the tough ask.

Although the ISCE is generally........

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