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Bekknqv
3y ago
EDIT: Made a very silly mistake (in my defence, it was late at night). The FULL periodic table is there in grade 11, not 9. Grade 9 only introduces you to the first 18 elements on the table.
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Bekknqv
3y ago
> How do you even teach biology or natural sciences without dedicated a significant amount if time for evolution (not just a page or two... lol..) I'm no biologist or teacher, but I don't feel like you need to jump into evoluti
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3y ago
You can already check the omitted chapters and the textbooks themselves on the NCERT website. That article barely explains anything and is literally tagged as 'humour'. Looks like they're more interested in playing politics t
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3y ago
Right, but the goal here is to reduce the burden by removing things that are already present elsewhere. You could probably make the same argument for a bunch of other 9th grade topics. Regardless, teachers won't just pretend like the p
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3y ago
The periodic table is actually already present in the 9th grade textbook. As it stands, they haven't changed the JEE syllabus, so you do have to learn it either way. Probably just to save paper and make lighter books? Not sure. Back in
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3y ago
The periodic table is actually already present in 9th grade textbooks.
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They're trying to reduce the burden on students. Don't exactly know if evolution violates some Hindu teachings, but a statement was released last month stating that evolution was removed from the grade 10 book because it's pr
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3y ago
Teachers will still be teaching (and this is probably what NCERT expects) these basic topics, because teaching the topics that remain won't be easy without them. My sibling was in grade 10 when COVID hit, some topics that had been remo