Telangana BIE announces major reforms in inter education

The Telangana Board of Intermediate Education will introduce internal exams system for all streams, hold year-wise practical exams and print QR codes on the textbooks from the academic year 2026-27

Hyderabad: From introducing internals, holding year-wise practical exams to printing QR codes on textbooks, the State government approved major reforms in the intermediate education system.

Commencing academic year 2026-27, intermediate students will have internal assessment for 20 marks, while the external examinations, that is, intermediate public examinations, will be conducted for 80 marks. So far, only the English language has internals, which will now be extended to all subjects irrespective of the stream of study.

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“The internals will be activity-based work, which will be implemented from the academic year 2026-27,” Telangana Board of Intermediate Education Secretary S Krishna Aditya told ‘Telangana Today’.

In addition, doing away with the current practice of holding practical examinations in the second year, the Board will hold year-wise practicals. This means practicals related to first and second years will be conducted at the end of the respective academic year.

“These will be external practical examinations, which will be conducted for 15 marks each in first and second year intermediate,” a senior official said.

Further, the Board will tone down the question paper difficulty of mathematics examination in the Mathematics, Economics and Commerce (MEC) stream. Presently, Maths (MEC) subject question paper difficulty is on par with the MPC (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) stream.

“Since arts students do not require such tough questions, it has been decided to make the paper relatively easier compared to the MPC stream. However, the syllabus for both MPC and MEC will remain the same,” the official said.

Another major reform is the revision of textbooks, which will be done considering the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus. According to sources, a major chunk of syllabus in Chemistry and partly in Mathematics and Physics may be reduced for the forthcoming academic year. “The subject experts committee will decide on the syllabus reduction,” the official said.

Apart from syllabus revision, the Board, with assistance from SCERT, will be printing quick response codes on the intermediate textbooks. These codes, when scanned on an Android phone or tablet, will navigate to related content available on the internet.