FLN baseline test flags poor learning outcomes among Telangana primary students

The Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) baseline test has revealed weak learning outcomes among primary school students in Telangana, particularly in mathematics and language competencies.

Hyderabad: Class V students in Telangana are struggling in both Mathematics and Telugu, with just 13.5 percent and 8.8 percent competent in Mathematics and Telugu respectively. This has been revealed in the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) baseline test, whose results were declared on Wednesday.

As per the results, 67.60 percent Class V students were competent in addition. However, the percentage of students who were competent in subtraction was 47.70 percent, multiplication at 29.10 percent and division at 16.20 percent.

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School Education department sources said the percentage for each competency indicates the proportion of assessed students who answered at least 80 percent of the questions correctly within that competency.

“For instance, if sentence reading has five questions and a student answers four correctly, the student is considered competent in sentence reading,” sources explained.

The baseline test for Classes II, III, IV and V students was conducted in the first week of July. A total of 1,59,675 Class II, 1,55,057 Class III, 1,62,329 Class IV and 1,56,521 Class V students were assessed in Telugu, English and Mathematics. Competencies in Urdu were also assessed.

As for Class IV students, only 9.10 percent could achieve competencies – sentence reading, reading comprehension, reading fluency and writing – in English. Similarly, only 10.60 percent of total students who were tested came out competent in mathematics across addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Competency in Telugu, English and Mathematics among Class III students stood at 4.60 percent, 3.30 percent, 5.20 percent and 7.80 percent respectively. Similarly, among Class II students, 2.20 percent were competent in Telugu, 1.30 percent in Urdu and 4.50 percent in English.