Friday, June 17, 2011

ICSE or CBSE- which is good for kids

I have seen some articles on this subject.here is my point of view-
ICSE- ICSE is a old board, organized by a private body, i mean its not related to govt. ICSE syllabus is good beacuse it gives indepth knowledge on the subjects. students never get direct questions in exams, they should know the concept and write the exams. In ICSE , English language standards are very high. I guess, they have paper 1 and paper 2 in English. Even Maths they have two papers. Many people think that ICSE and CBSE has less standards of maths than state board syllabus. But I don’t see much difference. In Science ICSE students read physics, chemistry and biology separately and need to pass in each paper. That means they will get good amount of knowledge in each topic.Where as in SSC I guess we had only one subject called science. Similarly they have to write three separate papers under social – history and Civics, economics and geography. And have other subjects like hindi, computer science, environmental science ect.When iam in 10th I guess I wrote 6 papers. But ICSE students have to give around 11 papers. we need to get pass marks in each paper. That’s why it is called tough syllabus.

CBSE- CBSE syllabus is managed by central board. Even this has good syllabus. All the topics in ICSE are covered in CBSE but with less details. As govt introduced new methods in evaluating the student, It became more easy to study and give exams. This year many students got CCE-10/10. The CCE( continuous and cumulative evaluation) takes into account both the scholastic and non-scholastic aspects and students are given grades instead of marks. This syllabus is bit less conceptual than ICSE and better than SSC syllabus. IIT and medicine entrance exams papers follow CBSE syllabus books. ICSE becomes more burden to students from 6th class onwards. So CBSE syllabus for kids would be best option. Less stress and good grades.

My Plan is like, kids should go for ICSE till 5th standard. After that we will come to know whether they can cope up with syllabus or not , based on that we can shift them either to CBSE or SSC based on their future plans and skill set required.

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