Chennai: In an effort to prepare the state board students for competitive exams and to improve their learning experience, the Tamil Nadu government has unveiled an elaborate plan for revising the syllabus between classes 1 and 12 in three academic years starting from 2018-19.
“To prepare the students for national level exams, the current syllabus will be upgraded on par with CBSE and other boards,” school education minister K. A. Sengottaiyan told reporters here on Tuesday.
He also added that the syllabus and textbooks will promote the ancient Tamil history, literature and culture. It has been 12 years since the higher secondary syllabus has been changed and seven years since the introduction of the common syllabus for classes 1 to 10.
“In the next academic year (2018-19), the syllabus will be changed for classes 1,6,9, 11. In 2019-20, the syllabus will be changed for classes 2,7,10 and 12 and the following year (2020-21), the syllabus for remaining classes 3,4,5 and 8 will be revised,” Mr.Sengottaiyan said.
“The syllabus revision work will begin very soon and it will be undertaken by the senior academicians,” he added. The State Council of Educational Research and
Training has drafted a new syllabus for higher secondary two years ago. Whether the state government will adapt the NCERT syllabus or revise the draft state board syllabus is yet to be decided.“We will look into whether we need to revise that syllabus into the current context. ” school education secretary T. Udhayachandran told Deccan Chronicle.
“The part-III subjects such as Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology are same all over the country. We will compare these subjects with other national boards like CBSE to introduce better syllabus to our students,” school education secretary T. Udhayachandran told Deccan Chronicle.
But subjects such as Tamil, History and Political science will have more localised content. “We will not copy the CBSE syllabus as itself six, seven years old. We want to bring a better syllabus than the CBSE and will involve national level experts in drafting the syllabus,” he said. For the first year, the draft syllabus is expected to be ready in six months.
