Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) 540 views

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is a national level board of education in India for public and private schools, controlled and managed by Union Government of India.
CBSE has asked all schools affiliated to follow only NCERT curriculum, here are approximately 20,299 schools in India and 220 schools in 28 foreign countries affiliated to the CBSE.

The first education board to be set up in India was the Uttar Pradesh Board of High School and Intermediate Education in 1921, which was under jurisdiction of Rajputana, Central India and Gwalior in 1929.

Affiliations: CBSE affiliates all Kendriya Vidyalayas, all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, private schools and most of the schools approved by central government of India.

Examinations:
CBSE conducts the final examinations for Class 10 and Class 12 every year in the month of March. The results are announced by the end of May. The board earlier conducted the AIEEE Examination for admission to undergraduate courses in engineering and architecture in colleges across India. However the AIEEE exam was merged with the IIT-Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) in 2013. The common examination is now called JEE(Main) and is henceforth conducted by National Testing Agency.

Contact address:
Shiksha Kendra, 2, Community Centre,
Preet Vihar, Delhi – 110092

Tel: 011-22467263, 22023737, 23220154