Subject: School for Project Work Evaluation in Social Sciences

It is reiterated that schools should seriously follow the laid down guidelines in evaluating different aspects of internal evaluation i.e. term/unit tests, assignments and project work and maintain proper assessment records. Project Work is an important aspect of internal evaluation wherein children are helped to do and learn on their own by going through the documents, collecting relevant materials and analysing them to arrive at their own findings and conclusions. The schools should continue to assign the projects to students based on the guidelines and topics specified. They must also ensure that the total length of the Project report should not be more than 12-15 (size A4) foolscap size handwritten pages. Evaluation should be strictly in terms of the criteria laid down in the guidelines. Boosting of internal assessment marks should be avoided. Any such thing may lead to downscaling of internal marks or its cancellation and the result will be declared on the basis of external marks alone. The CBSE Board will be very shortly sending you the revised topics/themes for project for classes IX and X to be followed during the current academic session 2006-07.