PYTHON IN CLASS XII COMPUTER SCIENCE

1. CBSE to try Python in Class XII  Computer Science Paper      CBSE – As the Central Board of Secondary Education Class XII Computer Science  Examination is likely to be held on ​March 28 this year​, the Board has decided to  experiment by giving the option to the students to attempt questions on either C++ or  Phyton Language, as per IE report. Citing a recent notification from the Board, the  report further said that the questions on Python are optional, especially, when only a  few schools have the chapter on this language in the academic year 2017-19.  Therefore, the students can either try attempting the questions either on Python or  C++.  Again citing the same source, the report said that to enable the students offering  1   

2. Computer Science irrespective of the programming language to appear for the Class  XII examination this year, the Board will administer the question papers in the  subject on the basis of last year having sections such as Python and C++ and  candidates will be directed to attempt any one section. The CBSE Class XII  examination will be held from February 15 to Aril 3 this year in the morning session  starting from 10.30 AM to 1.30 PM. What is more, the answer book will be  distributed at 10.00 AM and question papers given at 10.15 AM. The students will be  able to check the date sheet from the official website, cbse.nic.in  The Board has also extended the passing criteria for Class X students. From this year,  they need to get a minimum of 33% marks in theory and practical combined to  declare pass in the subject, added the report.     Main objectives of CBSE are as follows:  To define appropriate approaches of academic activities to provide stress-free, child  ● centred and holistic education to all children without compromising on quality  To analyze and monitor the quality of academic activities by collecting feedback from  ● different stakeholders  To develop norms for implementation of various academic activities including quality  ● issues; to control and coordinate the implementation of various academic and  training programmes of the Board; to organize academic activities and to supervise  other agencies involved in the process  To adapt and innovate methods to achieve academic excellence in conformity with  ● psychological, pedagogical and social principles  To encourage schools to document the progress of students in a teacher and student  ●  

3. friendly way  To propose plans to achieve quality benchmarks in school education consistent with  ● the National goals  To organize various capacity building and empowerment programmes to update the  ● professional competency of teachers  To prescribe conditions of examinations and conduct public examination at the end of  ● Class X and XII  To grant qualifying certificates to successful candidates of the affiliated schools  ● To fulfil the educational requirements of those students whose parents were  ● employed in transferable jobs  To prescribe and update the course of instructions of examinations  ● To affiliate institutions for the purpose of examination and raise the academic  ● standards of the country  The prime focus of the Board is on:  Innovations in teaching-learning methodologies by devising students friendly and  ● students centred paradigms  Reforms in examinations and evaluation practice  ● Skill learning by adding job-oriented and job-linked inputs  ● Regularly updating the pedagogical skills of the teachers and administrators by  ● conducting in-service training programmes, workshops etc  More Details  Visit:​https://www.minglebox.com/articles-on-education/cbse-to-try-python-in-class-xii-c omputer-science-paper/