To improve the results, Punjab government cuts the English syllabus by 40 percent

To improve the results, Punjab government cuts the English syllabus by 40 percent

In an attempt to improve the results of the state board exam, the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) decided to do away with the 40% syllabus of English from classes 6th to 10th. The decision to reduce the syllabus comes in the middle of the current academic session and the examinations in March will be held according to the new syllabus, education officials said. English, along with the Social studies are the subjects which students of the state are failing the most. In Punjab, English is often referred to as ‘Waterloo’ even for the students who are good at other subjects. Teachers in Punjab, also have been demanding a reduction in the syllabus saying that it is too elaborate to cover in 200 days, which is the number of days for which classes are held in an academic year. According to the new English syllabus for class 10th , the numbers of chapters have been reduced from 24 to 14 and the number of letters to be written by the students have also been reduced from 47 to 31. Vijay Kumar, an English teacher at the government high school at Lallian Kalan in Jalandhar, said “the English syllabus of PSEB was much more vast than in other boards like CBSE, which left no time for revision. We have been demanding for long to review since it was affecting the overall results of class 10th in board exams”. “During various teachers’ training programs, we had raised the matter before Krishan Kumar, Punjab’s Education Secretary, who went through the syllabus and agreed it was creating an unnecessary burden on students and leading to their poor grasp of the subject,” said Chander Shekhar, an English teacher. This year, 89000 students of the PSEB flunked the English board exam.

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