Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is an autonomous body working under aegis of the Ministry of HRD. The main objectives of CBSE are affiliating institutions in and outside the country, conduct annual examination for class X and XII, updating and designing curriculum etc. Other activties are: to develop appropriate approaches of academic activities to provide stress free, child centred and holistic education without compromising the quality, to analyze and monitor the quality of academic activities, to develop norms for implementation of various academic activities, and training programmes, to organize academic activities and to supervise other agencies involved in the process, to adapt and innovate methods to achieve academic excellence in conformity with psychological, pedagogical and social principles, to encourage schools to document the progress of students in a teacher and student friendly way, to propose plans to achieve quality benchmarks in school education consistent with the National goals, to organize various capacity building and empowerment programmes to update the professional competency of teachers, to prescribe conditions of examinations and conduct public examination at the end of Class X and XII, to grant qualifying certificates to successful candidates of the affiliated schools, to fulfil the educational requirements of those students whose parents were employed in transferable jobs, to prescribe and update the course of instructions of examinations, and raise the academic standards of the country.