Chennai: To improve the performances of state board students in national level competitive exams like Neet, the Tamil Nadu government revised syllabus for classes 1 to 12 and released the draft new syllabus on Monday.
Following the approval of high-level committee which met here on Monday, Chief Minister Edappadi K.Palanisami formally released the draft syllabus and position papers on various subjects. The new syllabus will replace 12-year-old higher secondary syllabus and seven-year-old common syllabus for classes 1 to 10. It has included many aspects which expected to improve the students’ performance.
“After collating good aspects of more than 15 boards including CBSE we have come out with the new syllabus. If it is implemented fully, the students would do well in all the competitive exams”, said M. Anandakrishnan, chairman, Tamil Nadu Curriculum Framework Committee.
“The draft syllabus also has well-defined learning outcome for all subjects and all classes. The content of the draft syllabus will be much more advanced than the current syllabus. We have introduced technology for science subjects and we have also introduced six skill development courses like textile manufacturing”, he said.
Many new topics like robotic science, nanoscience, environmental chemistry or green chemistry are being introduced to students at school level. All the concepts will have explanations about where it connects with our life.
School education minister K.A.Sengottaiyan said the new syllabus was prepared in a record time of just four months. “The syllabus will help the students to shine in whatever field they choose to study in future. We have created the syllabus to prepare the students for the future,” he added.
The draft syllabus has been published on www.tnscert.org. Experts, teachers, and the public can read it and give the feedback and suggestions online or through letters until November 28. All these suggestions would be considered for inclusion in the syllabus, the minister said.
