Annual Report (01.04.97 to 31.03.98)

Abstract

From Foreword: [t is my pleasure to present to you this issue of the Annual Report of the Beard of Secondary Education, Assam, covering the period from 01-04-1997 to 31-03-1998. This issue brings together the programmes and policies of the Board during this period. A major policy decision undertaken by the Board is the restructuring of the language load of pupils. The revised curriculum appended to this Report shows how the restructuring was done. Another decision taken was with regard to the Social Studies course which will henceforth be known as Social Science to incorporate individual elements of History, Geography, Civics and Economics. Steps have been taken to implement these decisions with affect from the year 2000. Likewise, it may also be mentioned that the Board has extended the scheme of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation to cover the Classes V to VIII as well.