CBSE has announced that there will be no Board examination for the third language in Class 10.
(File Photo)A month after it released its new school curriculum, announcing that a third language would be made compulsory in Class 6 from the current academic session (2026-27), the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has made three languages — including at least “two native Indian languages” — compulsory for Class 9 students from July 1 this year.
Also Read | Education Ministry cuts revaluation fees, backs on-screen markingThe third language will be exempted from the Class 10 board examination, with its assessment to be “entirely school-based and internal”.
The curriculum announced in April had taken a phased approach to implementing the three-language formula (R1, R2, R3), making it mandatory only in Class 6 this year.
So, students who are in Class 6 in the current academic session would have been the first cohort to have R3 in Class 10 in 2030-31.
CBSE has announced that there will be no Board examination for the third language in Class 10. (File Photo)
A month after it released its new school curriculum, announcing that a third language would be made compulsory in Class 6 from the current academic session (2026-27), the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has made three languages — including at least “two native Indian languages” — compulsory for Class 9 students from July 1 this year.
Also Read | Education Ministry cuts revaluation fees, backs on-screen marking
The third language will be exempted from the Class 10 board examination, with its assessment to be “entirely school-based and internal”.
The curriculum announced in April had taken a phased approach to implementing the three-language formula (R1, R2, R3), making it mandatory only in Class 6 this year. So, students who are in Class 6 in the current academic session would have been the first cohort to have R3 in Class 10 in 2030-31.
