Class 6, 9, and 11 national credit framework pilot will shortly be introduced by CBSE.

School principals have been invited to take part in a pilot initiative to implement the National Credit Framework (NCrF) by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

The Central Board of Secondary Education, or CBSE, has invited its affiliated schools to participate in a trial run of the National Credit Framework for grades 6, 9, and 11 beginning in the academic session of 2024–2025.

In order to carry out the National Education Policy (NEP) of 2020, the government launched the National Credit Framework (NCrF) last year. It seeks to make it easier for education to seamlessly transition between formal and informal settings, allowing students to earn credits from pre-primary to doctorate levels.

"The Union Ministry of Education approved the draft NCrF implementation guidelines that the CBSE created and distributed after debating them in several workshops. A pilot implementation of these principles has been proposed in schools affiliated with CBSE in classes 6, 9, and 11, with effect from session 2024-2025, in order to further test, refine, and analyze their performance in real-world contexts," the board stated in a letter to school principals.

"Principals of interested schools for this pilot programme are requested to share their contact details through the link https://forms.gle/5AB2iuxa1k62r2E3A," it said.

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Credits can be earned by students in a number of ways, including classroom instruction, lab work, projects, involvement in athletics and the performing arts, NCC and social work, vocational education, and experiential learning, which includes professional certifications and relevant experiences, among other endeavors.

"By converting classroom instruction to competency- and learning outcome-based education and learning, this would close the achievement gap in learning outcomes. Therefore, in order to receive credit for any kind of learning, the assessment must be completed," the board stated.

The board declared that the credits earned will be kept in the student's Academic Bank of Credit (ABC), which will eventually be linked to their DigiLocker account and APAAR ID.