Nagpur: Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi, has released the details on its obligatory Problem Solving Assessment (PSA) test for class IX and XI students. As per sources, the test will be conducted on February 14, 2013 and will assess the life skills of the students, since there is no specific syllabus.
In order to judge the students' life skills abilities, the test will focus on three specific areas, namely, Quantitative Reasoning, Qualitative Reasoning and Language Conventions. Also, will include reasoning related to Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences subjects. Considering qualitative reasoning, students will have to face reasoning from mathematics science. However, language convention will include different aspects of written communication i.e. grammar, vocabulary etc.
Students have to perform well in the PSA as it will be counted towards Formative Assessments (FA)-4 which is 10% of total assessment of Class IX. Moreover, the assessment will also be carried forward towards FA-4 in Class X. As per the details issued by CBSE, the score will be reflected in one Language (English or Hindi), Mathematics, Science and Social Science with effective from the session 2012-2013 for Class IX and 2013-14 for Class X.
Students will have a great opportunity to improve their PSA score in Class X as they can sit for the test with Class IX students of the session 2013-2014 in January - February 2014. The best scores of the PSA will be reflected in the final certificate in case of those applying for improvement.
