bhopal vikrant singh a student of physics chemistry and maths stream is a worried teenager these days as his class xii board exams approaches near he is getting more anxious a student of kv no 2 vikram said i am working hard for exams for few months but i am not satisfied with my preparationspankaj tiwari a student of class xii from army public school also experiences same anxious moments i am nervous practical exams are going on and teachers are doing their best to help us but as date of theory exams draws near i am losing my confidence a student with science stream said reason both teenagers have never ever appeared in a board exam before this we would have better prepared if i had given class x board they said most of students appearing in the class xii board exams conducted by cbse this year had skipped the class x board exam by opting for school exams instead the scale of nervousness is indicating high stress and anxiety in students of bhopal and their parents about 6000 students from 63 cbse schools in bhopal will appear for xii board exam this year from the state capital rani singh vikrams mother says i am afraid about his result though he is preparing well for exams i think coaching and tutorials help more than school teachers under the continuous and comprehensive evaluation cce system which allows a student to be promoted even with the lowest grade of d this lot seems to have taken studies lightly the cbse has been backing the cce saying it is more inclusive but teachers and students are keeping their fingers crossed teachers and many parents say the system is less rigorous and are not happy with the outcome a teacher of a local convent on the condition of anonymity said spare the rod and spoil the child academics seem to have become second priority till class x r s patel father of a class xii student deepanshu says though i am satisfied with the endeavour of my son in studies i am not happy with the cce class x should have been a board exam the seriousness with which the preparation of board exams was done is entirely missing in students shiv kumar of pcm stream from green valley school says this is the first time when i have to do preparation for whole syllabus its quite tough and i am so stressed god knows how ill perform in the exam sapna a commerce stream student of kv bairagarh says less than a month is left for the exams and i have done only 50 preparations of exam teachers are helping much by giving advice and tips for scoring better marks they have taught about the pattern of board questions and are encouraging us to solve more and more previous year question papers says pranav singh of kendriya vidyalaya p s kalra principal international public school says the students need to be more