<p>The CBSE has warned its schools against "sponsoring" students for the board examinations from schools which are not affiliated to the board, threatening them with strict action.<br /><br />This comes following the board's directive to all of its schools for submission of the list of candidates for the board examinations to be held for Classes X and XII in 2018.<br /><br />"School should send list of only those students who are bonafide regular candidates of the school," the board's examination controller K K Choudhary said in an advisory to schools.<br /><br />In case "unauthorised candidates" or students from non-affiliated (non-CBSE) schools are sponsored, strict action will taken as per the affiliation by-laws against the schools.<br /><br />"The CBSE has a system of surprise inspection of schools, in which infrastructure and candidate strength at classes IX, X, XI and XII are verified," he said.<br /><br />The CBSE is preparing to hold compulsory board examinations for all students of Class X from 2018, after a gap of seven years.<br /><br />The Human Resource Development Ministry scrapped the system of holding optional board examinations for Class X students of CBSE schools in view of several reports indicating that the system had turned out to be counter-productive.<br /><br />The reports claim students ignored their studies in Class X as they knew they would be promoted to Class XI under the optional board exam scheme.<br /><br />The CBSE had introduced optional board examinations for Class X students in 2010 along with grading system.</p>
<p>The CBSE has warned its schools against "sponsoring" students for the board examinations from schools which are not affiliated to the board, threatening them with strict action.<br /><br />This comes following the board's directive to all of its schools for submission of the list of candidates for the board examinations to be held for Classes X and XII in 2018.<br /><br />"School should send list of only those students who are bonafide regular candidates of the school," the board's examination controller K K Choudhary said in an advisory to schools.<br /><br />In case "unauthorised candidates" or students from non-affiliated (non-CBSE) schools are sponsored, strict action will taken as per the affiliation by-laws against the schools.<br /><br />"The CBSE has a system of surprise inspection of schools, in which infrastructure and candidate strength at classes IX, X, XI and XII are verified," he said.<br /><br />The CBSE is preparing to hold compulsory board examinations for all students of Class X from 2018, after a gap of seven years.<br /><br />The Human Resource Development Ministry scrapped the system of holding optional board examinations for Class X students of CBSE schools in view of several reports indicating that the system had turned out to be counter-productive.<br /><br />The reports claim students ignored their studies in Class X as they knew they would be promoted to Class XI under the optional board exam scheme.<br /><br />The CBSE had introduced optional board examinations for Class X students in 2010 along with grading system.</p>
