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"I guess, here all schools follow the centrally prescribed curriculum, CBSE. All exams are national, as in all schooling students write the same exam set by the CBSE (sorta like ur APs). "</p>
<p>Arjun even though your in India you seem to suffer from high levels of ignorance about the education system there…all schools DO NOT follow the CBSE Board…most schools of any given state follow their respective state boards and some schools follow other Boards like ICSE or CBSE…So after the 10th grade your looking at common national exams for ICSE and CBSE while every state will have its own state board common exam.
At the 12th grade level with competitive entrance exams for technical institutes like IIT-JEE,AIEEE,BITSAT or al India medical entrance tests.Here too every state tends to have its own CET(common entrance test)…and if anybody reading this finds all this too complicated…then your right the high-school education system in India,though on a higher academic level,is designed in such a way so as to put its students through the maximum turmoil possible…</p>