National Achievement Survey 2021 conducted successfully across nation

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Last Updated16/11/2021

Recently, the Union Government has conducted the National Achievement Survey (NAS) across India, assessing about 38 lakh students from 1.23 lakh schools in 733 districts in 36 States and Union Territories.
The survey was last conducted in 2017 and was scheduled to take place in 2020.

It is a nationally representative large-scale survey of students' learning undertaken by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
NAS gives a system level reflection on effectiveness of school education.
It collects information on relevant background variables such as school environment, teaching processes, and student home and background factors.
Findings help compare the performance across spectrum and across population in order to find the desirable direction for improvements.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted NAS 2021.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) designed an assessment framework and tools for NAS-2021.

To provide structured feedback on student learning levels at District, State, and national levels.
These inputs are used for policy planning and designing pedagogical interventions to improve quality and ensure equity in learning.

This national level survey would be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) as Assessment Administrator for Grade 3, 5, 8 and 10 students of State Govt. schools, Govt. Aided schools, Private Unaided recognized schools and Central Government schools.
The Survey will be conducted in a monitored environment in the sampled schools.
Selection of sampled schools is based on UDISE+2019-20 data.
Therefore, the States, Districts used for drawing of the samples for NAS 2021 is exactly as per the UDISE+2019-20.
It was conducted in different subjects for different grades.
The subject and grades wise break up is below: