Bangalore: CBSE Syllabus for PUC from Next Academic Year

Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Nov 29: The state government, which has sought two years time for bringing its student under the ambit of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for Medical (MBBS) seats, has decided to introduce Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) syllabus for pre-university classes with effect from next academic year.

The government has taken this decision as the NEET question papers are based on CBSE curriculum. CBSE curriculum will be introduced for first PUC in 2012, and the same will be continued in the second PU classes. The state government has decided to be brought under the NEET net with effect from 2014.

An agreement for a uniform combined entrance test all over the country had been reached last year itself. However, the final decision was suddenly postponed by a year at the last moment. Addressing a press conference, minister for higher education, Dr V S Acharya, said on Monday November 28, that the students of the state need some time to adapt to the new syllabus, as there are changes between the PUC curriculum followed by the state and the centre.

Acharya also said that the state will approach the courts, if union health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who has been requested for  time till 2014 to fall in line with NEET, does not agree to the state’s request.  He expressed the optimism that NEET will benefit the students of the state, and that the state will not stand to lose as far as quota of the state is concerned. “It is true that we have to set aside 15 percent of seats in deemed, aided, and unaided medical colleges. But the same number of seats will be available to our students at the national level,” he explained.