CURRICULUM UPDATES AND CCE (CONTINUOUS AND COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION) SYSTEM
Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE) board closely follows the guidelines of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) and puts emphasis on the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation system (CCE). For this reason, it is becoming the curriculum of choice all across India. CCE helps in improving student’s performance by identifying his/her learning difficulties at regular time intervals right from the beginning of the academic session and employing suitable remedial measures for enhancing his/her learning performance. The scheme of continuous and comprehensive evaluation has inbuilt flexibility for schools to plan their own academic schedules as per specified guidelines on CCE.
 
Major Contents of Each Curriculum Learning Area in Classes
 a)  Languages include English, Hindi, Bengali, and focuses on listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, along with developing effective communicating proficiencies.
 b)  Social studies include the learning of history and culture, geographical environment, global institutions, constitutional values and norms, politics, interpersonal and societal interactions, civic responsibilities, and the incorporation of the above mentioned learning into one's life.
 c)  Performing and Visual Arts (Dance, Drama, Music, Drawing, Painting, Crafts, and Sculpture) include the instruction in these arts, aiming to help learners cultivate interest and appreciation for arts and encourage them to enthusiastically participate in related activities, thus promoting abilities such as imagination, creativity, understanding of value and the importance of cultural heritage.
 d)  Science and Technology include gaining knowledge about matter and energy, nature, the environment in science. It will focus on knowledge and skills to develop scientific attitude, use, and application of such knowledge and skills to improve the quality of life and further use this learning to analyze, evaluate, synthesize, create, invent, and discover.
 e) Mathematics includes acquiring the concepts related to number sense, operation sense, computation, measurement, geometry, probability and statistics, the skill to calculate and organize, and the ability to apply this knowledge and acquired skills in daily life. It also includes understanding of the principles of reasoning and problem solving.
 f) Health and Physical Education focuses on the learning about holistic mental and physical development, and understanding the importance of physical fitness, health, well-being and the factors that contribute to them. The focus of this curriculum is to help the learners develop a positive attitude and commitment to healthy, active living and the capacity to live satisfying, productive lives with the help of proper health management, sports, fitness, and lifestyle choices.
 
These six learning areas are to be integrated with each other in terms of knowledge, skills (life and livelihood), comprehension, values, and attitudes. Learners will get opportunities to connect between different areas of knowledge and application. They will be encouraged to cognize and appreciate the interconnectedness of all knowledge and the enduring connection between knowledge and values. Their education will help them to connect the content of their learning areas and subjects with their own lives and the world around them. The holistic nature of human learning and knowledge will be brought forth throughout.
 
Advantages of CCE System in CBSE
 
CCE helps in reducing stress of students by
 1) Identifying learning progress of students at regular time intervals on small portions of content.
 2) Employing a variety of remedial measures of teaching based on learning needs and potential of different students.
 3) Desisting from using negative comments on the learner’s performance.
 4) Encouraging learning through employment of a variety of teaching aids and techniques.
 5) Involving learners actively in the learning process.
 6) Recognizing and encouraging specific abilities of students, who do not excel in academics but perform well in other co-curricular areas.
 
CCE helps in improving student’s performance by identifying his/her learning difficulties at regular time intervals right from the beginning of the academic session and employing suitable remedial measures for enhancing their learning performance.
 
Holistic education demands development of all aspects of individual’s personality including cognitive, affective and psycho motor domains. It is unfortunate that not much attention and emphasis is given to the development of interests, hobbies and passion of learners. Focusing on excellence in academics alone undoubtedly results in lop-sided development of personality. It is thus essential that due importance be given to participation in co-curricular activities like Music, Dance, Art & Craft, Yoga, Mix Martial Art, Chess, Recitation, Public Speaking, Quiz and other areas of one’s interest to make life more fulfilling and enjoyable.