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Smt RR,
That reminds me of my own high school days. In fact I studied Sanskrit through 11th grade (schooling was only 11 years, IIT was 5 year program in those days).
Many of us took Sanskrit to secure higher marks which still seem to be true.
On my own accord I studied from 6th through 8th courses in Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan. I just noticed that they have the same set of exams even today (at least the same set of names)
http://www.bvbdelhi.org/sanskrit/school.html
I dont know if children take such exams for certificates.
I took and passed balbodh through Kovid (noted at the website above). I secured barely enough marks in Kovid and got a certificate earning third class marks (it said thritheeya shreni).
Those days the next level was Shastri certification and I dropped it after seeing the third class certificate in Kovid level
Plus the jump was huge and there was no one to really teach. I also realized language studies is not for me and decided biology & medicine are just as bad!
My Sanskrit skills are very rudimentary but I have more profound respect for it and have started re-learning.
Anyway I hope children in the middle schools do get exposed to these Bharathiya vidya bhavan programs.
hi sir
just info...i was sanskrit teacher in Bharatiya vidya bhavan as well as in a famous school in Mylapore....
