AHSEC to reduce syllabus of HS 1st & 2nd year by 30 percent

August 23: The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) has decided to reduce the Higher Secondary (HS) syllabus by 30 per cent for the 2020-21 academic year in the backdrop of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In this connection, the AHSEC has earlier sought the opinion of the stakeholders. It is on the basis of the opinion expressed by the stakeholders that the Council has decided to ease the curriculum load by 30 percent. The downsizing, of course, would include both HS First Year and HS Second Year curriculum.The AHSEC is likely to formally announce its decision by the end of August 2020.

Earlier, such a move of reducing the syllabus was also taken by CBCE for Class XI and XII for the academic year 2020-21.