Examination Reforms

1. Session - 2 Examination Reforms

2. Examination Reforms • Single paper for languages. • Summative exam for 80 marks and Formative Assessment for 20 marks. • Duration: 3 hrs for writing answers and 15 minutes extra time for reading QP • Single Answer Booklet • Pass mark in internals (FA) is – 7 and in summative exam is – 28 • Note: Student should pass in both separately.

3. Nature of Questioning Questions should be open ending, descriptive, thought provoking and analytical in nature. Questions once appeared in the public exam should not be repeated in the later public exams in the same form.

4. Nature of Questioning (Contd..) Question given at the end of each unit must not be given in the public exams as such. Questions must reflect the academic standards.

5. Types of Assessment Formative Assessment Summative Assessment

7. Formative Assessment-Tools Reflections: Learners’ own reflections (oral and written) on reading material other than textbook. Oral discourses produced individually in the classroom. Oral responses to the interaction done during the transactional process.

8. Written works: Textual exercises Written discourses produced individually in the classroom. Analytical questions given as home task

9. Project works: The oral and written performance of children during; Planning and preparation of tools. Execution/ Collection of data. Analysis & interpretation of data. Report writing and presentation.

10. Project works - Allotment of Marks: 6 marks for the written work (preparation of tools 2; collection of data and analysis-2, report writing-2) 4 marks for oral responses during the process and presentation of the report. Consider the indicators (written and oral) and award marks accordingly.

11. Slip Test: It contains one discourse, one reading comprehension and one exercise on Grammar & Vocabulary. This should be conducted without prior notice. It should be done in a single period and based on syllabus covered during the formative period.

12. Evidences for FA: Teacher’s unit cum period plan that reflects children’s performance. Student portfolio. Notebooks of children. Textual exercises carried out by children. Products evolved in groups through collaboration. Scripts of Slip Test.

14. Formative assessment- Cumulative Register Note 1: R-Reflections; W-Written works; P-Project work; S-Slip test, 2: To condense each item into 5 marks, divide the total marks under each area by 8 for 10 marks and by 16 for 20 marks.

15. Summative Assessment There will be 3 Summative Tests in an academic year. The third summative exam is the public examination to be conducted by the SSC board. Each test is for 100 marks. Out of these, 20 marks are allotted to internal assessment and 80 marks for written test.

16. Summative Assessment Internal Assessment (20 marks): The average of marks obtained in formative test(s) conducted earlier to the summative exam is to be considered for SA 1 and 2. For SA-3, the average of all four FAs should be considered for final results.

17. Summative Assessment – Guidelines • Written Test (80 marks) • Section-A: Reading Comprehension • Section-B: Vocabulary and Grammar • Section-C: Creative Writing-Discourse

18. Section – A • Reading Comprehension (30 marks)

19. Section – B • Vocabulary and Grammar (20 marks)

20. Section – C • Creative Writing – Discourses

21. Discourse – inputs For giving a question on discourse a context should be given as follows: verbal input: narrative/ hints. visual input: picture/ photo graphical input: charts & diagrams. numerical input: data in a tabular form.

22. Discourse: Biography Inputs given in the textbook at page no. 13

23. Discourse – Letter Inputs given in the textbook at page no. 63

24. Discourse – Report • (Inputs given in the textbook at page no. 64)

25. Summative Assessment - Grading