The Central Board of Secondary Education announced changes to the class 9 and 10 syllabus on October 29. Under these new changes, certain subjects and modules have been removed from the curriculum, modifying the study structure for students.

Subjects and modules removed from syllabus

According to the new rules of the board, the environmental education subject has been removed from the class 10 syllabus. Additionally, the individuals in society, computational thinking, and artificial intelligence modules have been removed from the class 9 syllabus.

Following the changes in the curriculum, students will now have to study a total of nine compulsory subjects. To pass the examination, it has been made mandatory to secure a separate 33 percent marks in main language, maths, science, and social science subjects.

New list for optional subjects

A new list of a total of 57 subjects has also been released by the board for optional subjects.