Aug 02, 2024
PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) conducted an analysis for establishing equivalence across boards
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The results of this study depicted that some state boards have a higher number of ‘difficult’ questions than ‘easy’ ones
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According to PARAKH, ‘hard’ questions are those which only a minority of learners would be able to answer. Take a look at the states with with toughest board exams
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The Tripura Board of Secondary Education had the highest proportion of hard ‘questions’ at 66.6%
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Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education was second amongst the toughest board exams with 53.57% hard questions
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Goa Board had 44.66% ‘hard’ questions. Apart from hard questions, other questions were ‘medium’ in difficulty level with no ‘easy’ ones
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Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education was relatively better with 44.44% ‘hard’ questions and similar ratio of easy questions (47.62%)
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West Bengal Board of Secondary Education was at the fifth position among the toughest state board exams with 33.33% difficult questions
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Here is the overall analysis for the percentage of hard questions in the state board exams
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