The Telangana School Education department is planning to introduce external assessments for Class I to IX students from the 2026-27 academic year to improve learning outcomes and reduce the gap between students' actual abilities and high pass percentages in schools.
The Parakh Rashtriya Sarvekshan 2024 report, released by the Central government, reveals that a staggering 75 per cent of the Class IX students failed to understand and apply the fundamental concept of percentage for cracking a simple problem
