Throughout academic year 2025-26, the civic body assessed Std I (after the first term), Std II, Std III, and Std IV students through foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) tests to identify learning gaps and apply remedial practices.
The education department analysed the performance of nearly 27,000 students per standard across two tests. The first test served as a baseline, testing students on a grade lower than theirs — Std II on Std I syllabus, Std III on Std II. After assessing the score and conducting remedial classes, the students were then tested for their own grade.
Score trends
Data shows that while Std I students showed notable progress across the tests, Std II and III students largely performed in the average bracket, while the scores for Std IV students largely remained stagnant. With the next checkpoint in April, remedial lectures are underway.
Teacher gap
“As the grade increases, the curriculum gets tougher, too. However, we also noted that the teachers were caught up with the election duty in November and December, so their presence in the classrooms was reduced. Since students are very used to their own teachers, it could be a direct impact of the same,” said officials from the education department.
Next step
The civic body has proposed running these tests in private schools to check if they are true benchmarks of learning systems.
Pilot gains
2024-25 FLN (Std II)
2.76 per cent scored low in pre-school linguistics
3.16 per cent scored low in pre-school mathematics
Post-remedial: 0.27 per cent low in language
Post-remedial: 0.07 per cent low in mathematics
Question levels
Std I: Making words, counting shapes
Std II: Subtraction, identifying speakers
Std III: Picture-based answers, opinions, word problems
Std IV: Descriptive, self-expression, math word problems
27,000
No of students assessed per standard
