When 17-year-old Ananya from Delhi saw her CBSE Class 12 English paper this year, she didn't find a single question that matched her notes. "I had read everything, but this paper wanted me to think," she laughs. "They asked how a poem connects to social media culture. There was no direct answer in the textbook."
That, in a nutshell, is the new CBSE.
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Once known for predictable exam patterns and rote-based scoring, the
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