Tamil Nadu government precised the school syllabus by 40%.

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Tamil Nadu Government has cut short the school syllabus for state students. Due to COVID-19, nearly about 40 percent of the syllabus has been scrapped for the academic year 2020-21 for school students.

An 18 member team has been appointed to further carry the process. The panel submitted its report to the state education minister in August. With the schools being closed and the less teaching-learning time frame, the Tamil Nadu School Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan declared on September 18 about the reduction in syllabus.

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Expert Committee Formed to Tackle the Issue

Schools and other educational institutions have remained closed since March this year due to lockdown. An expert committee was formed on May 12 under the guidance of Commissioner of School Education Sigy Thomas Vaidhyan to assess and appraise school education amid the pandemic COVID-19.

Committee members were allocated issues regarding problems in teaching due to sudden lockdown imposed in the country. Adversities like the delay in the beginning of the academic year and how to utilize the loss of time due to this delay were also among the main considerations.

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TN Education Minister Sengottaiyan said, “Government and Government-aided schools could get their doubts in the subjects cleared through Kalvi Television for six hours on Saturdays”. Kalvi Television, an educational channel, was launched on August 26, 2019.

Relevance of Revised Syllabus

The education minister clarifies that the revised syllabus will prove to be useful for preparing for any type of competitive examination conducted by the Central government.

The education minister also remarked that in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET),2020 held on September 13, 2020, 90% of total questions were directly from topics prescribed in Tamil Nadu State Board books.