Dear Principal,

As you are well aware, the Board had already intimated through earlier notifications on the need and urgency of introducing continuous and comprehensive evaluation in the Primary classes. The objective of this exercise is to shift the focus of academic activities towards enrichment of the total personality of the learners and to facilitate the learners to address to various facets of learning encompassing the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. This also should help in distressing learning so that undue focus is not given to the terminal examinations.

Though various initiatives have been taken by many schools at their own level to include several of these elements in their school reporting systems, it is important that certain amount of uniformity is established across the schools affiliated to the Board. It is in this context that the Board has brought out a model of the SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT RECORD for the primary classes. The Board has prescribed two different formats – one for classes I and II; and the other for classes III to V keeping in view the different competency requirements of the learners of these classes. It has also been informed earlier that the affiliated schools should stop the Pass- Fail system for the classes I and II and should have a continuous and comprehensive evaluation for classes III and V. The schools should progressively stop the pass-fail system upto class V. It is important to note that the schools should find adequate time and opportunities to identify the aptitudes and attitudes of the learners – to help them on what they are capable of performing rather than what they are not capable of performing.

The Board has also given certain broad guidelines at the last page of the formats. The schools are advised to get them printed at their own schools in the same size as has been brought out. The cooperation of the schools in the successful implementation of this scheme will help in bringing about the much desired changes in the educational scenario of this country.

Yours faithfully,

(G.BALASUBRAMANIAN)

DIRECTOR (ACADEMIC)