Education

ICSE students ace in the NAS survey of 2015

Beat CBSE and State Board students by a huge margin in three subjects out of four.

By Admin 21st Sep, 2016 05:41 pm

The CBSE and state education board students have been beaten by ICSE students in the National Achievement Survey (NAS) of 2015.

Statistics of NAS provided by the State Education Department revealed that apart from Social Science, ICSE was the clear leader in English, Science and Mathematics.

NAS is conducted by NCERT and the scores are based on a written exam held at randomly chosen schools of different boards.

The following are the scores of all the three boards out of 400:

Subjects	Board
Subjects	ICSE	CBSE	State Board
English	372	319	248
Science	342	298	246
Mathematics	315	286	255
Social Science	290	293	250

The competencies tested through the test booklets:

Image courtesy: www.ncert.nic.in

With the State Board schools performance debacle now out in the open, the Maharashtra government is working on rectifying the situation. Activity-based learning and changes in assessment patterns are some measures the state plans to take to bring the score to a minimum 300 by the next survey. Under this initiative, the state will categorise bigger schools in a particular region as ‘mother schools’, and these will be responsible for checking how regularly students in the vicinity are attending school. The step is expected to be instrumental in minimizing dropout rates at the secondary level.

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