Annual Assessment Guidelines
Subject: English
Class: 7
Assessment guidelines for conducting annual examinations 2024 for the
secondary level education institutions
1) The annual assessment of classes 6, 7, 8, and 9 will be done through written
examinations based on the National Curriculum 2022 of NCTB.
2) The annual assessment format for classes 6, 7, 8, and 9 will comprise both
summative and continuous assessment.
3) Out of 100 marks allocated for the assessment of each subject, the summative
assessment will carry 70% weightage while the continuous assessment will carry
the rest 30%.
4) For each subject, the annual summative assessment will be carried out through a
written examination of 100 marks. The marks obtained out of 100 marks written
examination will be converted to 70 marks and, these marks will be combined with
the marks obtained from the continuous assessment having 30 marks to calculate
the subject-wise result out of a total of 100 marks.
5) a) The continuous assessment as outlined in the subject-wise guidelines must be
completed in each education institution before the annual examination.
b) All records of students’ performances in the continuous assessment must be
gathered and stored properly.
The subject wise guidelines for conducting continuous assessments must be
followed properly.
6) The total time allocated for conducting the summative examination including the
objective part will be 3 hours.
7) The subject teachers will develop the question papers for the subjects they teach
following the sample questions provided by the Ministry of Education for
conducting annual examination while ensuring due level of confidentiality.
8) The Heads of concerned institutions in collaboration with the subject teachers will
take required measures for conducting annual examinations and ensure due level of
confidentiality.
9) Teachers who develop the questions/test items are also responsible for providing
the sample answers to the open ended and/or more subjective type test task.
10) The schools will provide answer scripts for students to write their answers in the
summative examinations. However, no separate OMR sheets/answer scripts will be
provided for the objective items. Students will have to write the answers to the
objective items in their answer scripts.
11) Assessments for the specialised subjects under Madrasah and Vocational steams
will be held in the same method as they were conducted before.
12) Assessments of all subjects of class 10 will be held in the same method as they
were conducted before.
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Subject-wise guideline for conducting annual summative assessments for the
academic year 2024
Subject: English
Class: 7
(a) Guidelines for developing questions
1. Questions should be based on the competencies/skills and knowledge focused in
the experiences of the NCTB textbooks as prescribed by the syllabus outlined in
this guideline.
2. Questions on reading and grammar must be set from the unseen texts which should
similar to the relevant texts given in the textbooks in terms of level of difficulty,
genre and style.
3. Tasks for writing part need to be set considering the type of writing students have
done in the classroom. However, no writing tasks/topics should be copied from the
textbook while setting questions.
4. Question setters need to provide the sample answers and rubrics for marking the
essay type/open ended writing tasks.
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