The most common choice is work education and physical education. Other popular choices include mechanics and mathematics (the almost universal choice of high-scoring students) and book keeping (common among middle range students). If a student wishes to take a subject as additional, it may be physics, chemistry, computer science, and others. Though the subject is optional, very few students choose it. If the points obtained in the additional subject are more than 34, 34 points are deducted and the rest are added to the grand total. For points equal or lesser than 34, no points are added to the grand total. Despite the presence of this subject, percentage totals are calculated in 800 and not 900 points, thus offering the chance to score more than 100%. As of late this method has been discontinued and students may take up an additional subject solely to gain knowledge. No points will be taken into account from this subject, a decision which has caused most to drop this subject. Recently additional subject does not offer to make change the results. Efforts are on to calibrate the syllabus with the much easier and higher-scoring (but broader, including more topics but lacking in depth) national curriculum offered by the central boards, namely the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations and the Central Board of Secondary Education. There have been suggestions that the Madhyamik should be taken on the syllabus of class 10 only as introduced in the higher secondary. The students of the current year (2011) are giving it like before, on the syllabi of both Classes 9 and 10. However, from 2012, it is going to be taken only on the syllabus of Class 10. For Madhyamik 2007, the whole syllabus for all the subjects has been changed to lessen the load on the students. There has both been some additions and some trimming done to all the subjects. While the majority of students passing Madhyamik usually go on to appear for the Higher Secondary Examination conducted by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, students may also opt for the All India Senior School Certificate Examination, conducted by the CBSE, or the Indian School Certificate examination conducted by the CISCE. Subjects Urdu (first or second language) Bengali (first or second language) English (first or second language) Hindi (first or second language) Nepali (first or second language) Mathematics Life Science Physical Science