New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) is all set to implement upon its new initiatives in an organized manner under the new Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) and examination reforms scheme.

The Board has recently issued a circular to its affiliated schools stating that it will be dispatching Compact Discs (CDs) containing question papers for class IX by February 20, 2010.

"It has been decided to provide question paper banks for English Communicative, English Language & Literature, Hindi-A, Hindi-B, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Communicative Sanskrit," said the circular.

In respect of other subjects/languages, the schools will administer their own question paper based on the sample question paper available on the CBSE's website, and intimated earlier.

The Board will be sending eight CDs and each will contain a number of question papers with one of the question papers allotted to each school.

For this purpose, the Board would supply a password either through SMS, e-mail or through telephone.

"We plan to dispatch the CDs containing question papers to all schools so as to reach by February 20, and immediately afterwards the password would be made available to the school," added the circular.

According to the directive of the Board, the date sheet for class IX examination would be designed by every school on its own.

The schools would take out the print of the allotted question paper after receiving the password in each subject. Thereafter, the required number of prints may be made at the school level.

"These question papers must be kept carefully. The schools should conduct the examination in all subjects for Class IX using these question papers during last week of February to last week of March 2010," an official said.

The scheme is in operation in all CBSE affiliated schools in class IX with effect from Oct. 2009 i.e. the second term.

Under this, two formative assessments and one summative assessment is to be done.

The schools have done / are already doing formative assessments during the second term, and summative assessment for this term is to be conducted now.

The Summative assessment will be in the form of a pen-paper test conducted by the schools themselves.

"In order to ensure standardization and to ensure uniformity, the question paper banks in different subjects are being sent by the Board to schools in February 2010," the circular further added.

Catering to the difference in the pace at which students respond to questions, schools will also give flexible timing to students for attempting the question papers. This may vary from three to three and a half hours.

The evaluation process would be handled by the school teachers based on the marking scheme provided by the Board.