Quiz 4 — NCF-SE 2023

Statements 1 and 2 are correct. The framework's own account of how it was made (p. 562) records DiSaNC — the Digital Citizen-centric Survey for National Curriculum — with 10 questions and over 13,00,000 citizens, including parents and students; a separate survey on the MyGov platform with 100 questions and 1,50,000 participants; more than 1,550 District Consultation Reports from district-level consultations in which DIETs took part; and State Focus Groups of over 4,000 experts who wrote more than 600 position papers on 25 themes. Statement 3 is the planted error. The document names no Oversight Committee among the groups that made it: the National Steering Committee under Kasturirangan, with the Ministry of Education and NCERT, designed the process, and the Mandate Group under Manjul Bhargava guided it. The National Oversight Committee under Jagbir Singh was a 2023 NCERT body for the new textbooks. Watch the survey numbers too: 10 lakh and 1.3 lakh are NCF-FS 2022's figures, and the 100 questions belong to the MyGov survey, not to DiSaNC.

The Foundational Stage uses observation of the child and analysis of the child's artefacts, with no formal tests; the Preparatory Stage adds formative oral and written assessments, including short formal written evaluations; the Middle Stage uses formative techniques such as projects, debates, presentations, experiments, investigations, role plays, journals and portfolios, with a comprehensive summative assessment at the end of each year; and the Secondary Stage uses case-based questions, simulations and essay-type questions, with written, practical, project and open-book tests, self-assessment playing a key role, and the Board examination as the summative assessment where relevant. (b), (c) and (d) shuffle these. Two details are worth fixing: written tests begin at PREPARATORY, not Foundational; and "unit-end, term-end and year-end" assessment for the Middle Stage is the pre-draft's wording — the release asks for a comprehensive summative assessment at the end of each year.

All three are correct. In Grades 9 and 10 each subject is a well-integrated study of several disciplines — Science combines biology, chemistry, physics and earth science; students take three languages — at least two native to India — plus seven subjects, ten in all for Grade 10 certification; and Art Education, Physical Education and Well-being and Vocational Education are assessed locally at the school level with external examiners rather than by board examination. Certification takes the best performance across the examination cycles. No planted error. Two warnings about sources: the pre-draft of 6 April 2023 spoke of "16 Essential Courses" and 8 Board examinations, and said Grades 9 and 10 "will follow an annual structure" — the release drops all three, and says instead that the current annual pattern "should move to a semester design". If you meet "Essential Course" anywhere, you are reading pre-August-2023 material.