CBSE drops English Communicative from Class X syllabus, English Elective from class XII

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has dropped English Communicative for class 10^th and English Elective from class 12^th, effective from 2018-19 academic session. As per the CBSE circular released on March 9, a total of six subjects have been discontinued from this year.

The board has instructed the schools to not include the two subjects in the present class 10^th and class 12th examinations. However, the students who have studied these subjects in their class 9^th and 11^th will continue to study them.

The subjects which have been discontinued from class 9^th and subsequently class 10^th include English Communicative (Paper code 101), e-Publishing and e-office (Paper code 354 & 454) and Information and Communication Technology (Paper code 166).

As for class 11^th and subsequently class 12^th, the subjects dropped include English Elective (Paper code- 101), Mohiniyattam (Paper code 062) and Multimedia and Web Technology (Paper code 067).

CBSE has also introduced some minor changes in the 2018-19 academic session. Sanskrit Communicative (Paper code 122) has been renamed as Sanskrit for class 10th, with the same paper code, as prescribed by NCERT. Another subject, Foundations of Information Technology (Paper code 165) has been renamed to Computer Applications with the same code.

It should be noted that the students who are currently in their class 10^th and 12^th won’t get affected with the changes. The changes are effective for those students who will enter class 10^th and 12^th in the new academic session.

As a matter of fact, these changes will be visible in the class 10^th and 12^th board exams of March 2020.