Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to introduce the concept of Open Text based Assessment (OTBA) for students of classes 11th and 12th from March 2014.
OTBA will be applicable to all main subjects and would assist students in acquiring analytical and theoretical skills, discarding the ‘rote’ methods.
CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi justified this in a letter to school saying that "multiple modes of assessment need to be provided to cater to the varied abilities of individual strengths of learner. These are meant to incorporate analytical and theoretical skills, thus moving away from memorization".
This Open Text Based Assessment will comprise of different questions related to higher order thinking skill which include creative, subjective and open ended.
This OTBA will be a part of the summer assessment conducted by different schools. Vineet Joshi also, makes it clear that OTBA will comprise 15%-20% of the total marks obtained. This may also include value based questions, which already are a part of the current set up.
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