CBSE-Higher Order Thinking Skills(HOTS)

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is all set to introduce High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) question paper for class X and XII examinations commencing from March 1, this year.

Explaining the details, CBSE Chairman Ashok Ganguly told that about 10 per cent of questions will be very short answer type and about 20 per cent of questions will be designed to assess HOTS.

"This marks a paradigm shift in our pattern of assessing the students... The typology of the question paper is different,'' he added.

While for 7.65 lakhs students, appearing for the class 10 examinations, the HOTS pattern will be implemented in all subjects, question papers for 10 chosen subjects for XII standard students- comprising of more than 5.4 lakhs - will be based on the new design. These ten subjects include Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Business Studies, Accountancy, Economics, Political Science and History.

"The aim of the new pattern is to develop the critical thinking and analytical skills of the pupils... Besides testing understanding of information, the focus will be on measuring students' abilities to reason, justify and evaluate information," Mr Ganguly said.

Meanwhile, CBSE, from 2008 onwards is giving students five chances to clear their paper through compartment examinations.

"Till now we used to provide only 3 opportunities to the students to clear a paper but now we have increased it to five," Ganguly added.

While the class X examinations will be held from March 1 to 27, the class XII examinations will be conducted from March 1 to April 2.

Aptitude test to guide students

Gangtok, Feb. 25: The Sikkim directorate of capacity building, under the department of personnel and training, with the assistance of the state human resource department, is organising a psychometric test for students of Class X of all government schools in South and West districts from today to February 29.
An official of the directorate said the psychometric test is a specialised and standardised system which will systematically guide students in making suitable career choices by measuring their interest, aptitude and personality, using psychological parameters.
“When students are in Class X, they are on the threshold of choosing a particular stream. The test will guide them in identifying a suitable vocation in life and that is why the psychometric test is made mandatory for all Class X students of government schools in the two districts,” an official of the directorate said.
It is the first time that such psychometric tests are being organised in government schools in the state. The directorate is engaging the services of experts from the field of psychological testing and career counselling institutes for the purpose. This is also part of the capacity building measures being undertaken by the directorate.-

source: The Telegraph

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