Telugu: 20 Percent Qualifying Marks for Class IX And X Exams

Telugu | Hyderabad, Dec 15 (Maxim News): Students, whose mother tongue is not Telugu, but are pursuing simple Telugu as a compulsory language are likely to have 20 per cent or 20 marks as qualifying marks of the total 100 in the Classes IX and X exams conducted by the School Education Department.

It may be recalled that the Telangana government made Telugu as compulsory teaching and learning of Telugu in Schools Act 2018, which made learning Telugu language mandatory for students in schools.

Affiliated to different boards, including the SSC, CBSE, ICSE and IB in the state. This implementation was being done in a phased manner since the 2018-19 academic year, starting with Classes I to VI.

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During the last academic year, it was implemented for Classes I, II, III, IV, VI, VII, VIII and IX in all schools across the state.

This academic year 2022-23, Telugu as a language was made compulsory for Classes I to X in all schools.

However, the government gave exemption from learning Telugu as a compulsory language for students from other states enrolling for Class VIII and above in Telangana.

But such students have to opt for two other Indian languages which the students has studied upto Class VII from Part-I Indian Languages available in the State – Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Marathi, Kanada, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarathi etc. as the first language and second language upto Class X. (Maxim News)

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