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What happened:
CBSE schools must now teach three languages, at least two of them Indian. The compulsory third language starts in Class 6 from 2026-27 and reaches Class 10 by 2030-31.
What happened:
Class 10 boards now run twice a year. February's compulsory, May is an optional retry for up to three subjects, and your better score is the one that counts.
What happened:
NEP 2020 swapped 10+2 for 5+3+3+4. It's a re-map of ages and stages, not of your timetable, and most of what changed happened before Grade 1.
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The government's own UDISE+ 2025-26 data shows retention at the secondary stage falls to 51.9%. Getting into school is nearly universal. Finishing it isn't.
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India has sat the global PISA test exactly once, in 2009, and finished near the very bottom. It's skipped every round since, including 2025, even as every Indian school board gets retrained to write PISA-style questions.
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Circulars are short, free, and public. Jump to the effective date, the definitions, and the exceptions, and you'll have a school policy figured out in about ten minutes.