EDUCATIONAL PATTERN IN INDIA

In India, the national education pattern is 10+2+3, with first 10 years devoted to general education, 2 years for diversification from general education to specialised academic or vocational courses and 3 years for degree programmes. In other words, first 12 years of education is called school education, which does not include pre-primary education comprising of nursery and kindergarten stages. At the +2 stage, a student is in a position to exercise a choice to select a stream (academic or vocational), keeping in view his interests and professional pursuit. Public examinations are conducted at the end of class X and class XII.