CBSE has issued a recent circular to the principals of all the schools regarding change in assessment scheme of social science for secondary schools.

The notice states, "From the academic session 2008-09 and the Board examination 2009 in Social Science of Class X, unit 5 on Disaster Management will be evaluated only through projects.  No questions will be asked from this unit in the theory paper of Social Science. Hence, the students will be required to do project work compulsorily in Disaster management only.   The revised distribution of marks over other units of Social Science syllabus and new topics/themes of project work, class X will be communicated to the schools shortly. The CBSE’s guidelines with respect to other components of internal evaluation in this subject such as Assignments- Class and Home and Tests- Formative and Summative will remain unchanged