Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched a pre-examination counselling for students and parents.
The tele-counselling will go on from February 1 till April 22 from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
This is the 19th consecutive year that CBSE will provide psychological counselling services to students at the time of preparation as well as during the examinations to overcome exam related stress.
“The CBSE annual counselling is an outreach programme which is carefully designed keeping the heterogeneity of students’ population and geographical spread. Multiple modes of communication such as telephonic counselling, question answer columns in newspapers and online counselling through CBSE website are used to reach out to more and more examinees during this phase,” PRO CBSE, Rama Sharma said. The counselling is offered by principals and trained counsellors from within CBSE affiliated schools located in and outside India. It is a voluntary, free of cost service provided by the participants.
This year 76 principals, trained counsellors from CBSE affiliated government and private schools and few psychologists will participate in the tele-counselling and address exam related psychological problems of the students. Sixty of them are available in India while 16 are located in Nepal, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Jeddah, Sultnate of Oman, Al Khobar), UAE (Sharjah, Dubai, Ras Al-Khaimah) and Kuwait.
Students can dial a toll free number 1800-11-8004 from any part of the country which will give centralised access to CBSE helpline. While the general queries will be answered by the operators, students will be connected to the principals or counsellors in case of exam related anxiety or stress.