Tamanna – Try And Measure Aptitude And Natural Abilities
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As students enter secondary stage of schooling, they move closer to making many important choices, one of which is deciding the subjects and courses of study at senior secondary level such as Humanities, Commerce, Science or Vocational. This decision of students is influenced by a number of factors such as their interests, attitudes, motivation, personality and aptitude. The decision of students is often influenced by their parents, family members, friends and teachers. Teachers and parents play a significant role in helping students to take decisions by facilitating students to know their aspirations, strengths and limitations. As we all know that when students know their strengths, it helps them to become motivated and put more efforts which are likely to result in improved performance.
Aptitude is a special ability or a cluster of abilities. Since aptitude is a special ability required to study or do a job, it indicates the probability of performing well in a particular course of study or occupation/vocation and also indicates the extent to which the person would derive benefit by training in a particular vocational area. Different occupations need different sets of abilities. For example, to be a successful architect one requires a set of abilities such as keen sense of observation, a sense of visual memory, ability to sketch free hand, etc. A student having these set of abilities is at an advantage and is likely to perform well in this occupation.
Aptitude test results may help students to:
Understand and make subject choices in relation to the identified special abilities.
Explore career pathways related specifically to areas in which they have high aptitudes.
Reaffirm their aptitude and explore if they want to continue with their chosen course of study or seek alternatives.
Relook at their occupational aspirations/goals in line with their specific aptitude and review their efforts to achieve desired academic and occupational goals.
Tamanna (Try And Measure Aptitude And Natural Abilities)
Under the aegis of Ministry of Education, CBSE and NCERT have developed TAMANNA - an Aptitude Test for Senior School Students to enable stakeholders knowing the aptitude of students of classes IX and X.
Details about use of aptitude test, dimensions measured in the test, construction and standardization of the test, administration and scoring and understanding the meaning of aptitude test scores are available in the test manual.
As a collaborative work, piloting of the aptitude test was done by the CBSE with 17,500 students studying in classes IX and X through its affiliated schools across different parts of the country.
Scoring, analysis and interpretation may be done as per the details provided in the ‘Guide for Teachers and Parents’.
Students, teachers and parents must keep in mind that the aptitude test provides information related to the strengths of students and there is no pass or fail in this test.
The test should be taken voluntarily by interested students and must not be used to impose any subject etc. on the students.
Tamanna - Technical Manual.pdfTechnical Manual
Tamanna - Guide For Teachers.pdfGuide for teachers and Parents
Tamanna - Test Booklets.pdfTest Booklet
Tamanna - Format_for_Schools_for_obtaning_Scoring_Key_4.pdfFormat
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