The Ministry of Education and PARAKH – the national assessment centre, organised the first national-level workshop on assessment with the states and union territories (UTs).

• The workshop was organised in New Delhi and focused on school assessment, examination practices and equality between educational boards nationwide.
• The workshop discussed the rote learning culture in India and emphasised designing standardised question papers, balancing the weightage given to formative and summative assessments and reducing the burden associated with higher education institutions.
• Along with this, the workshop also focused on the analysis of the results of secondary and higher secondary examinations.
• The workshop was chaired by Sanjay Kumar, secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, who stressed the need to bring equality between different educational boards.