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CBSE drops Vocational and Elective subjects from Class XII syllabus

Read to know which vocational and elective subjects have been dropped by CBSE from the academic year 2017-18.

By Admin 10th Mar, 2017 02:54 pm

Seven elective subjects and 34 vocational subjects have been dropped by CBSE for Class XII from the academic year 2017-2018. The reason that was cited for the decision is low enrolment issues.

Academic Electives Class XII
S. No	Code	Subjects/ Academic Elective
1	040	Philosophy
2	069	Creative Writing and Translation Studies
3	070	Heritage Craft
4	071	Graphic Design
5	075	Human Rights and Gender Studies
6	078	Theatre Studies
7	079	Library and Information Science

Vocational Subjects Class XII
S. No	Code	Subjects/ Academic Elective
1	716	Poultry Nutrition and Physiology
2	717	Poultry Products and Technology
3	718	Poultry Disease and their Control
4	755	Foundry Technology
5	758	Management of Dairy Animals
6	759/761	Milk Marketing and Entrepreneurship
7	760	Diary Product technology

CBSE will also be offering vocational subjects as compulsory subjects under the remodelled assessment scheme for schools as a part of the National Skill Qualification Framework for Class X. Students can now take a vocational subject as their sixth subject. In case a student fails in any of the elective subjects (science, mathematics and social sciences) it will be replaced by the vocational subject opted by the student, and the marks will be calculated on that basis.