Scheme of Studies
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Academic Stream The learning areas will include:
I&II Two Languages (Core/Elective) out of Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujrati, Kashmiri, Kannada, Marathi, Malyalam, Manipuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Limboo, Lepcha, Bhutia, Mizo, Tangkhul, Bodo, Nepali, Tibetan, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
Notes:
- Out of the languages, one shall be English or Hindi, both English and Hindi can also be offered simultaneously.
- The languages may be offered either at Core/Elective level. The same language, however cannot be offered both at the Core level and Elective level.
- A candidate has the freedom to offer, in lieu of one of the two languages above, any other elective subject provided under III below:
Note: English can be offered at any of the three levels given below:
- English Core
- English Elective
- Functional English
III to V. Three Electives out of the following:
Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Engineering Graphics, Economics, Political Science, History, Geography, Business Studies, Accountancy, Home Science, Fine Arts, Agriculture, Computer Science/Informatics Practices, Multimedia and Web Technology, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, Physical Education, Music and Dance, Entrepreneurship, Fashion Studies, Creative Writing and Translation Studies, Heritage Crafts, Graphic Design and Mass Media Studies (In this regard please also refer to notes under 3.2. 1. And 3.2. 2 below) .
Note: 1. The candidate shall opt either for Computer Science or Informatics Practices. However along with either of this, they can opt for Multimedia and Web technology. Thus, a Candidate can opt for maximum of two IT based Courses.
- General Studies
- Work Experience
- Physical and Health Education
Additional Subject:
A candidate can also offer an additional elective which may either be a language at elective level (out of those mentioned above) or, any other elective subject. In this respect please also refer to clause 2.5 (iv) under chapter 2. While transacting the Curriculum due emphasis should be laid on National Identity and Value Education. Schools are expected to draw their own programmes in this area in accordance with the guidelines contained in the brochure ‘National Integration through Schools’ published by the Board, Likewise, programmes in General Studies, Work Experience and Physical and Health Education be planned in accordance with the guidelines brought out by the Board.
List of Vocational Subjects
Name of the Course | Subject ID |
Office Secretaryship | N/A |
Office Secretaryship-Office Practice and Secretaryship | 604 |
Office Secretaryship-Secretariat Practice & Accounting | 605 |
Office Secretaryship-Office Communication | 606 |
Stenography & Computer Application | N/A |
Stenography & Computer Application-Typewriting (English) | 607 |
Stenography & Computer Application-Stenography (English) | 608 |
Stenography & Computer Application-Typewriting (Hindi) | 609 |
Stenography & Computer Application-Stenography (Hindi) | 610 |
Accountancy and Auditing | N/A |
Accountancy and Auditing-Financial Accounting | 611 |
Accountancy and Auditing-Elements of Cost Accountancy & Auditing | 612 |
Additional Subject Optional | N/A |
Additional Subject Optional-Store Accounting | N/A |
Additional Subject Optional-Typewriting | N/A |
Marketing and Salesmanship | N/A |
Marketing and Salesmanship-Marketing | 613 |
Marketing and Salesmanship-Salesmanship | 614 |
Marketing and Salesmanship-Consumer Behaviour and Protection | 615 |
Banking | N/A |
Banking-Cash Management and House Keeping | 619 |
Banking-Lending Operations | 620 |
Banking-Management of Bank Office | 621 |
Electrical Technology | N/A |
Electrical Technology-Engineering Science | 622 |
Electrical Technology-Electrical Machines | 623 |
Electrical Technology-Electrical Appliances | 624 |
Additional Subject Optional | N/A |
Additional Subject Optional-Applied Physics | 625 |
Additional Subject Optional-Mechanical Engineering | 626 |
Automobile Technology | N/A |
Automobile Technology-Auto Engineering | 627 |
Automobile Technology-Auto Shop Repair and Practice | 628 |
Additional Subject Optional | N/A |
Additional Subject Optional-Applied Physics | 625 |
Additional Subject Optional-Civil Engineering | 629 |
Structure and Fabrication Technology | N/A |
Structure and Fabrication Technology-Fabrication Technology-II | 630 |
Structure and Fabrication Technology-Fabrication Technology-III | 631 |
Additional Subject Optional | N/A |
Additional Subject Optional-Applied Physics | 625 |
Additional Subject Optional-Civil Engineering | 629 |
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology | N/A |
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology-Air Conditioning and Refrigeration-III | 632 |
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology-Air Conditioning and Refrigeration-IV | 633 |
Additional Subject Optional | N/A |
Additional Subject Optional-Applied Physics | 625 |
Additional Subject Optional-Civil Engineering | 629 |
Electronics Technology | N/A |
Electronics Technology-Electronic Devices and Circuits | 634 |
Electronics Technology-Radio Engineering and Audio Systems | 635 |
Electronics Technology-Television and Video Systems | 636 |
Additional Subject Optional | N/A |
Additional Subject Optional-Electrical Engineering | 637 |
Additional Subject Optional-CivilEngineering | 629 |
Dairying | N/A |
Dairying-Milk and Milk Products | 639 |
Dairying-Milk Production, Transport and Milk Cooperatives | 640 |
Dairying-Dairy Plant Instrumentation | 641 |
Horticulture | N/A |
Horticulture-Vegetable Culture | 642 |
Horticulture-Floriculture | 643 |
Horticulture-Post Harvest Technology and Preservation | 644 |
Health Care and Beauty Culture | N/A |
Health Care and Beauty Culture-Beauty Therapy and Hair Designing-II | 654 |
Health Care and Beauty Culture-Cosmetic Chemistry | 655 |
Health Care and Beauty Culture-Yoga Anatomy and Physiology | 656 |
Ophthalmic Techniques | N/A |
Ophthalmic Techniques-Biology (Ophthalmic) | 657 |
Ophthalmic Techniques-Optics | 658 |
Ophthalmic Techniques-Ophthalmic Techniques | 659 |
Medical Laboratory Technology | N/A |
Medical Laboratory Technology-Laboratory Machine (Clinical Pathology, Hematology & Histopathology) | 660 |
Medical Laboratory Technology-Clinical Biochemistry | 661 |
Medical Laboratory Technology-Microbiology | 662 |
Auxiliary Nursing & Midwifery | N/A |
Auxiliary Nursing & Midwifery-Fundamentals of Nursing II | 663 |
Auxiliary Nursing & Midwifery-Community Nursing II | 664 |
Auxiliary Nursing & Midwifery-Maternity & Child Health Nursing II | 665 |
X-Ray Technician | N/A |
X-Ray Technician-Radiation Physics | 666 |
X-Ray Technician-Radiography I (General) | 667 |
X-Ray Technician-Radiography II (Special investigation, imaging and Radiography) | 668 |
Food Service & Management | N/A |
Food Service & Management-Advanced Food Preparation | 675 |
Food Service & Management-Meal Planning & Service | 676 |
Food Service & Management-Establishment & Management of Food Service Unit | 677 |
Fashion Design & Clothing Construction | N/A |
Fashion Design & Clothing Construction-Textile Science | 684 |
Fashion Design & Clothing Construction-Designing & Pattern Making | 685 |
Fashion Design & Clothing Construction-Clothing Construction | 686 |
Textile Design Dyeing & Printing | N/A |
Textile Design Dyeing & Printing-Textile Science | 684 |
Textile Design Dyeing & Printing-Basic Design | 687 |
Textile Design Dyeing & Printing-Dyeing & Printing | 688 |
Hotel Management and Catering Technology | N/A |
Hotel Management and Catering Technology-Food Preparation-II | 690 |
Hotel Management and Catering Technology-Accommodation Services | 691 |
Hotel Management and Catering Technology-Food & Beverage Service-II | 692 |
Tourism and Travel | N/A |
Tourism and Travel-India-The Tourist Destination | 693 |
Tourism and Travel-Travel Trade Management | 694 |
Tourism and Travel-Tourism Management and Man-Power Planning | 695 |
Bakery and Confectionery | N/A |
Bakery and Confectionery-Food Service & Hygiene | 696 |
Bakery and Confectionery-Bakery Science | 697 |
Bakery and Confectionery-Confectionery | 698 |
IT Application | N/A |
IT Application-I T System | 699 |
IT Application-Business Data Processing | 700 |
IT Application-DTP, CAD and Multimedia | 701 |
Library Management | N/A |
Library Management-Library Admn. & Management | 702 |
Library Management-Classification and Cataloguing | 703 |
Library Management-Reference Service | 704 |
Life Insurance | N/A |
Life Insurance-Principles Practice of Life Insurance | 705 |
Life Insurance-Computer & Life Insurance Administration | 706 |
Transportation System & Management | 712 |
Poultry Farming | N/A |
Poultry Farming-Poultry Nutrition & Physiology | 716 |
Poultry Farming-Poultry Products Technology | 717 |
Poultry Farming-Poultry Diseases & their control | 718 |
Financial Market Management | N/A |
Financial Market Management-Accounting for Business-1 (Class XI) | 719 |
Financial Market Management-Introduction to Financial Market-1 (Class XI) | 720 |
Financial Market Management-Computer Applications in Financial Markets (Class XI) | 721 |
Financial Market Management-Accounting for Business-2 (Class XII) | 722 |
Financial Market Management-Introduction to Financial Markets-2 (Class XII) | 723 |
Financial Market Management-Business Process Outsourcing Skills (Class XII) | 724 |
Healthcare Sciences | N/A |
Healthcare Sciences-Anatomy & Physiology (Class XI) | 725 |
Healthcare Sciences-Healthcare Delivery System, Hospital Organization And Services and Medical Equipments and Technologies (Class XI) | 726 |
Healthcare Sciences-Food Nutrition and Dietetics (Class XI) | 727 |
Healthcare Sciences-Health Education, Communication, Public Relations and Public Health (Class XII) | 728 |
Healthcare Sciences-Basic concepts of Health and Disease and Medical Terminology (Class XII) | 729 |
Healthcare Sciences-First Aid & Emergency Medical Care (Class XII) | 730 |
Food Production | N/A |
Food Production I (Class XI) | 734 |
Food Production II (Class XI) | 735 |
Food Production III (Class XII) | 734 |
Food Production IV (Class XII) | 735 |
Food And Beverage Services | N/A |
Food Service I (Class XI) | 736 |
Beverage Service I (Class XI) | 737 |
Food Service II (Class XII) | 736 |
Beverage Service II (Class XII) | 737 |
Mass Media Studies And Media Production | N/A |
Understanding the Evolution and Form of Mass Media-I (Class XI) | 738 |
The Creative and Commercial Process in Mass Media-I (Class XI) | 739 |
The Creative and Commercial Process in (Class XII) Mass Media-II | 738 |
The Creative and Commercial Process in Mass Media-II | 739 |
Geo Spatial Technology | 740 |
Bridges between Vocational and Academic Streams Bridges between Commerce-based vocational courses/packages and the subjects pertaining to different disciplines under the Academic Stream have also been provided. Accordingly, Business Studies, Accountancy and other subjects can be combined, subject to meeting the obligations required under the prescribed scheme of studies, with the following areas from the commerce based Vocational Courses:
- Type-writing in English (no. 607)
- Stenography in English (no. 608)
- Typewriting in Hindi (no. 609)
- Stenography in Hindi (no. 610)
- Marketing (no. 613)
- Consumer Behaviour and Protection (no. 615)
- Storekeeping (no. 617) Store Accounting (no. 618)
These electives can be offered along with Business Studies, Accountancy and other subject to the following stipulations:
- Not more than two electives from the above list be offered.
- These papers be not combined with the electives related to similar disciplines under the academic stream in order to avoid duplication e. g. Store Accounting (no. 618) can not be combined with Accountancy (no. 055)
- If Stenography in Hindi or English is offered, it is obligatory to offer Hindi Typewriting or English Typewriting respectively as the case may be to make the combinations more meaningful. English Stenography, however, cannot be combined with Hindi Typewriting or corollarily Hindi Stenography with English Typewriting.
Instructional Time:
Per Week of Teaching Time
Subject | Suggestive Periods |
Language I | 7 |
Language II | 7 |
Elective I | 8 |
Elective II or Vocational Course | 8 |
Elective III | 8 |
General Studies/General Foundation Course (GFC) | 3 |
Work Experience (Not applicable to Vocational Stream) | 2 + 2 ⚹ |
Physical & Health Education | 2 |
Time expected to spend outside school hours While designing the courses it has been presumed that, given margin to vacations, public holidays and other contingencies, a minimum of 30 weeks of teaching time will be available in each session for actual instructional transaction. Accordingly, the distribution of periods over units and sub-units has been made which is only suggestive in character. The schools, keeping the overall number of periods in each subject area the same may assign more or less number of periods to individual units according to their relative importance if throughout necessary. The distribution of marks over each unit (unitwise weightage) is prescritive, hence shall remain unchanged.
Notes:
- Schools are expected to give adequate time for Community Service outside the school hours, the minimum being equivalent of two periods a week.
- The Vocational Group candidates should make use of the time allotted for Work Experience for on the job training, if so required.
Medium of Instruction The medium of instruction in general in all the schools affiliated with the board shall either be English or Hindi. Special Adult Literacy Drive (SALD) In pursuance of the objects of the National Literacy Mission, Government of India, a Special Adult Literacy Programme has been taken up by Board from the academic session 1991 − 92 beginning with classes IX & XI as a special measure to help remove illiteracy, through massive involvement of students. This has been termed as SALD. The Adult Literacy Drive has been made an essential component of Work Experience. Framework of SALD is given at Appendix ‘A’ Since this activity has to be taken up by all the schools on a compulsory basis, their attention is invited, among other things, to clauses 2 and 3 of the Framework.