This document provides guidelines for creating effective assessment tests for students. It outlines objectives such as understanding teaching effectiveness, assessing student understanding, and identifying weaknesses. It describes preparatory activities for students like completing the syllabus and revising. Test scheduling and formatting are also addressed, emphasizing clear organization, appropriate length and difficulty, and child-friendly language. Quality control measures include validation by parallel teachers and subject conveners. Post-test analysis provides feedback to improve instruction and help students.

3. OBJECTIVES:
1.To understand the effectiveness of teaching
learning
2.To check the level of understanding of students.
3.Assessment for identifying the weak areas of
students and adopt suitable remediation
measures for the same.
4.To award JUDICIOUS grades to students in
various competencies

4. PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES
FOR THE STUDENTS
Ensure that
1.The syllabus is completed.
2.Some quality revision is carried out
3.Discuss the pattern of question paper and the weightage allotted to each
competency especially in classes 4 & 5
PARALLEL TEACHERS:
The parallel teachers must be consulted before setting the paper for ascertaining
the lessons and the areas of testing.
All the test items should be shown to the parallel teachers and not just the type
of question paper.
PLANNING FOR THE QUESTION PAPER-
• A lesson wise blueprint should be prepared and submitted along with the
question paper to avoid repetition of questions and testing of all areas.

5. PERIODICITY / TIME SCHEDULING
THERE ARE FOUR PEN PAPER TESTS IN AN ACADEMIC YEAR- TWO IN EACH
TERM
TEST SCHEDULE
FA 1 JULY
SA1 SEPTEMBER
FA3 DEC./JAN
SA2 MARCH
TIP:
1. A minimum of TWO sets of question papers should be
set for each test.
2.The Exam in charge may select a suitable one . The other
one can be used for re-tests and in any other value added
manner.

6. TYPOGRAPHY DETAILS:
1. Use only one font throughout- Arial
2. Font Size- 14
3. In case of Hindi, use Guruma.
4. Use only 1.5 /double spacing
5. Leave sufficient space for answers/ diagrams etc
6. There should be no spelling mistakes in the Question paper.
7. The pictures in the question paper should have well-defined
outlines.

7. FORMAT- heading of the question paper
ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL BENGDUBI
5TH
MONTHLY TEST 2013-2014
CLASS : Subject:__________ Date: ___________
1.
a.
b.
2.
a.
b.
NOTE: QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ORGANISED UNDER COMPETENCY HEADS/ OR
SECTIONS CLEARLY

8. QUALITY & LENGTH OF THE QUESTION PAPER
1. Keep the time in mind while setting question papers.
2. Set the paper in such a way that the average students can attempt
the paper effortlessly.
3. Paper should neither be too difficult nor too easy for the students
to answer.
4. Let the language be child friendly.
5. Most questions could be open ended and a variety of answers can
be expected from the students.
6. The question papers should provide opportunities to the students
to utilize their competence rather than their content knowledge.
7. Marks allotted for each question should not be shown in the
question paper.

9. VALIDATION
1. Question papers must be submitted to the exam
dept with the signature of all the parallel
teachers. They must be supplemented with the
blueprint and a precise scoring guide. For
questions which can have more than one answer,
a small note may be added.
2. The Subject Conveners should check the paper
and sign it too
3. The Subject Conveners and Head of the Primary
are responsible for the quality and standard of
the paper in all respects

10. GUIDELINES FOR PRT TEACHERS
1. Take help from the question papers set earlier
by their predecessors, but don't merely copy
them. Use your own imagination, knowledge,
technique to add / replace the content.
2. While taking help from text book questions
given under a particular lesson, take an
utmost care to see that the question should
not just be copied in the same format as given
under the lesson.
3. Divide your questions in the 'essay type' and
'objective' type format.

11. 4. Read the question paper at least once to make
any revisions / corrections in spelling and
grammar etc. before submitting it for typing.
5. Make a justifiable distribution of marks
depending on the effort the child has to make
in answering the question.
6. It is advisable to get your question paper
checked by some one else before submission
for typing.

12. POST TEST ANALYSIS- FEEDBACK
FOR THE STUDENTS- ( for Self Appraisal)
1.Suitable follow up work
2.The teachers should guide the students to analyse their strong and
weak areas while returning the corrected answer scripts and have an
informal discussion with them as to how the weaknesses can be
addressed.
3.The students can be asked to write a brief goal statement
for themselves
FOR THE TEACHER (to improvise instructional strategies)
1.understand the effectiveness of teaching learning
2. understand and bridge the gap in communication between the
teacher and the taught.
3. identifying the weak areas of students and adopt suitable
remediation measures for the same
FOR PARENTS - working together to help the child (children)

13. IMPORTANT
1. No repetition of questions within a question paper and
from test paper to test paper. The area tested can be the
same but the question must be framed differently
2. If questions from the previous year paper are being
sourced they need to be reframed suitably
3. No marks should be reflected on the paper or informed to
children
4. Marking scheme is balanced
5. Typography and format is child friendly
6. Language used is child friendly