The document discusses the CBSE assessment reforms from the 2021-22 academic year, including an increased focus on competency-based questions. Key points: - CBSE will increase the proportion of core competency questions to 30% in Class 10 and 20% in Class 12. - Competency-based questions have been rising since 2019-20 to assess learning outcomes, core competencies, and holistic development. - Multiple-choice questions will check reading comprehension, reliability of achieving learning outcomes, validity of questions, and confidence in approach.

1. CBSE
ASSESSMENT
REFORMS
FROM 2021-22 ACADEMIC
YEAR ONWARDS

2. Analysis of MCQ question Paper for Term-1
Exam(2021-22)
Dr.T.Padmavathy,
Principal and Director,
Fusion International School,
Hyderabad

5. Competency Based questions are rising exponentially
from the academic year 2019-20 onwards
FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-22 TO REACH A 30% CORE COMPETENCY
QUESTIONS IN CLASS 10
AND 20 % IN CLASS 12

7. Remember
• List out the conditions required for photosynthesis
• What is the definition of Photosynthesis?

8. Understand • Explain the
process of
Photosynthesis.
• Identify the
conditions
required for
photosynthesis
• Confidently understood
the content and the
student can reproduce the
answer.

9. Apply
• Perform an experiment to prove that sunlight is required for
photosynthesis.

10. analyze

11. Evaluate

12. To which category does this question belong to?

13. create

14. Learning
outcome

15. Learning
outcome

16. Learning
outcome

17. To which category does this question belong to?

18. One
more
Read the above paragaraph and
write your opinion about the
antagonist character of the story.
Design a project to #upcycle and
recycle waste material.

19. After various
deliberations over the
assessments to be
conducted- by the
CBSE
The perspective of the
holistic education in
line with the core-
competencies of a
learner

21. • The following terms were
considered by CBSE – for
assessments
• Blooms Taxonomy
• Learning outcomes
• Core competencies
• Holistic development
• Technology driven
• Advance provision of
alternatives for future driven
scenarios

23. Why MCQ exam for
assessing the child?
Check reading comprehension
Degree of reliability of achieving the learning outcome
To arrive at the right option from the plausible distractors
Validity of the question
Confidence in the approach

25. Core Competencies

26. Holistic
approach for
learners

34. To understand the stem of the question
• Plausible distractors in a logical order
• Size of the plausible disclosure is taken care of
• Core competency
• Holistic development
• Skills incorporated

35. Let us understand this question

37. The statements used in the question are lucid and
Self Explanatory
• The plausible disclosure is again arranged in
the logical order of increasing length of words
Question Contains
all the relevant
material

39. • Again, one stem has four options with 3 plausible distractors
• The comprehension with respect to content and
skill, is important and the learning objective
achieved is checked.
• The answer can be marked by the
student only if the learning outcome is
achieved

40. This is one more question

42. • Logic followed?
• Question analysis
• -carbohydrates-energy- content
• Skill – critical thinking
• Core competency –critical thinking
• Holistic- academics
• No none of the above and all the
above answers
• No negative stems
• Negative stems also to be toned
positive

43. • Look at the arrangement of the
question stem and decide the logic
behind !

45. What is the learning objective
from this question?
What is the learning outcome?

46. • LOB: Apply Law of Conservation of
Mass in order to balance chemical
equations

50. HOTS how?
Higher Order Thinking
Skills
More than one level of
Blooms Taxonomy in one
question
Mostly Evaluate and
Create questions to
appear.
Using core competencies