A year ago, an open-book test was thought of as a great privilege — a sort of breath of fresh air from the tedium of constant memorization. Then, everything changed. As COVID-19 spread, our methods of ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will implement Open-Book Assessments (OBAs) for Class 9 students starting from the 2026-27 academic year. This initiative received approval from the ...

Hyderabad: CBSE’s move to introduce open-book assessments for Class IX starting in the 2026-27 academic year is being welcomed by educators as a much-needed shift in student evaluation. This new model ...

CBSE Class 9 Open Book Exams from 2026-27, What You Need to Know: Students will be pleased to know that the CBSE has proposed an open-book assessment system for Class 9 for the 2025-26 academic ...

Pune: Educators from the CBSE board in Pune have said that the introduction of Open-Book Assessments for Std IX from the 2026-27 academic year will lead to making examinations more relevant to ...

The decision, approved by the board’s Governing Body in June 2025, follows a pilot study evaluating the feasibility and acceptance of the format in schools. The Central Board of Secondary Education ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has approved a proposal to include open book exams for class 9 in the 2026-278 academic session. This has come after a pilot study showed that teachers ...

In most schools, students are evaluated as individuals and graded on a curve relative to their classmates. In short, when they win someone else loses. Not only is this stressful, but it isn’t how most ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will introduce open-book exams for Class 9 students starting in the 2026-27 school year. The move is focused at reducing rote learning and helping ...

As the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced open-book examinations for students of class 9 under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, CBSE schools in Bengaluru welcomed the move ...