{"id":11427,"date":"2025-10-27T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11427"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:30:00","slug":"parakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/parakh\/","title":{"rendered":"PARAKH"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About PARAKH:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) is a unit established within NCERT <strong>in 2023<\/strong> to <strong>standardise school board assessments<\/strong> nationwide.<\/li>\n<li>PARAKH team will consist of leading assessment experts with a deep understanding of the education system in India and internationally.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To fulfil the basic objectives of setting norms, standards, guidelines and implement activities related to student assessment along with other tasks as mandated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/national-education-policy-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Education Policy (NEP) 2020<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The mandate of PARAKH is to work on bringing the <strong>school boards across the States and the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/union-territories\/\" target=\"_blank\">Union Territories<\/a><strong> to a common platform.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major areas of focus<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Capacity Development in Competency Based Assessment<\/li>\n<li>Large-Scale Achievement Survey<\/li>\n<li>Equivalence of School Boards<\/li>\n<li>Holistic Progress Cards for the Foundational, Preparational, Middle and Secondary Stages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the National Council of education and training?<\/h3>\n<p>The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an autonomous organisation set up in 1961 by the Government of India to assist and advise the Central and State Governments on policies and programmes for qualitative improvement in school education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/education\/news\/parakh-recommends-including-class-9-11-scores-in-class-12-report-card-124072900832_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PARAKH report proposes including Class 9-11 marks for Class 12 final scores<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) is a unit established within NCERT in 2023 to standardise school board assessments nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}