Nationwide Survey Highlights Gaps in Student Learning

Speedy Summary

• PARAKH RS assessment Findings: Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Progress (PARAKH RS) evaluated 21,15,022 children in Grades 3, 6 and 9 from 74,229 schools across India.
• Best Performing States/UTs: Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, kerala (across all grades), dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (Grade 6), Chandigarh (Grade 9).
• Subject-specific Observations:

– Grade 3:
– Language: 67% students could use vocabulary effectively.
– Mathematics: Only 55% could arrange numbers up to 99 in ascending/descending order; general pattern identification skills were stronger at ~69%.
– Grade 6:
– Mathematics challenges with only 38% solving real-world problems involving operations on whole numbers.
– Science/Social Science showed limited ability to connect concepts like moon phases or seasonal changes (~38% understanding).
– Grade 9:
– Constitution awareness (~45%) was average but language comprehension fared better (~54%).
– Weak performance in advanced number sets (~31%).

• Institutional Outcomes: Kendriya Vidyalayas showed mixed results-weakest performance in mathematics for Grades but top scores overall by Grade.

Indian Opinion Analysis

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