The State Educational Achievement Survey will test as many as 3.2 lakh students in 10,789 schools in Kerala.

• Conducted by PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development), a national assessment centre set up under the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the survey that will be held on November 3 will test students’ learning competencies in Classes III, VI, and IX.
• To be held ahead of a national survey in 2024, the exercise will be held in 29,000 classrooms and has a huge sample size of nearly one lakh students in each of the classes.
• The survey is significant for it will provide feedback on student learning at the block level to design pedagogical interventions at the grassroots.