VIJAYAWADA: Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy authorities is introducing the semester system of training in authorities colleges from lessons I to X. Introduction of this modern system in Andhra Pradesh is anticipated to enhance the standard of training and cut back the variety of books college students want to hold to their colleges.

The semester system will additional be useful to each college students and academics in that it’ll make studying outcomes extra significant.

Schooling division has issued an order introducing two semesters per yr in authorities colleges from Class I to Class IX from tutorial yr 2023–24. The 2-semester system will begin for Class X from yr 2024–25.

As per the order issued by State Council of Academic Analysis and Coaching (SCERT) director B. Pratap Reddy, implementation of the two-semester system is in tune with the Nationwide Academic Coverage – 2020. The semester system is a part of NEP to reform college training in a giant approach and qualitatively rework the prevailing instructional ecosystem.

SCERT performed an in depth research of the curriculum, syllabus and textbooks of NCERT and different state boards within the nation and overseas. The council developed textbooks for lessons I to V in a bilingual format with a trimester system from the educational yr 2020–21.  

As well as, SCERT developed Class Vl and Class VIl textbooks in two-semester system from the educational yr 2021–22 and 2022–23 respectively.

Bringing in uniformity, an AP authorities order acknowledged that district instructional officers, extra venture coordinators of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan and principals of District Institute of Schooling and Coaching will comply with the two-semester system from class I to IX from the educational yr 2023–24. The semester system can be launched for Class X from 2024–25

Officers disclosed that the federal government will present textbooks to college students for the semesters on the beginning of the educational yr freed from price.

Educationists say that is the primary time within the historical past of state training that semester system is being launched on the college degree. That is an enchancment on the sooner system, as college students had been discovering it troublesome to learn your entire syllabus directly throughout a yr. The semester system will make research extra manageable for college students and assist them achieve mastery over a topic.

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