After the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) deciding to reduce the syllabus by about 30% for the students studying from Class IX to Class XII this year due to COVID-19 lockdown, the Tamil Nadu government is likely to truncate the curriculum, especially for State board exam students. In 2020, the State government here had reduced the syllabus for Class 10 and 12 reduced by 40 pc due to the closure of schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic situation.