New exam schedule announced: Quarterly, semester exams replace unit tests in Gujarat govt primary schools

As reported by The Indian Express in April, the ‘360 degree assessment committee’ formed on March 3 has submitted its recommendation of replacing the ‘ekum kasauti’ with a comprehensive assessment format.

Following protests, representations and opposition to ‘ekum kasauti’ by teachers as well as educationists since it was launched in 2019-20 in over 33,000 government primary schools, the Gujarat government formed a special committee to deliberate on the assessment of students other than these weekly, fortnightly and monthly tests.

The committee has also proposed holistic performance report cards for primary school students in which students will be evaluated by their classmates, parents as well as themselves.

The quarterly tests will be held from August 18 to 30, 2025, in which a test of 40 marks will be taken in each subject.

The question papers will be prepared by teachers from the question bank and learning outcome based questions given by the GCERT. The test results will be mandatory to be shown to the parents and the marks will be added to the formative assessment.

The first semester exams will be held from October 6 to 14. The test for all subjects from Class III to VIII will be conducted as per the prescribed structure.

Quarterly exams

August 18 to 30

Each subject carries 40 marks
-Syllabus to be covered up to August 15

-GCERT to provide the question bank

-Learning outcome based questions compulsory

-Marks will be added to Formative Assessment

First Semester exams:

October 6-14

Guidelines for the question paper to be provided by the state education department

-Question paper to be prepared by DIET (District Institute of Education and Training)

– Syllabus to be covered from June to October

– Exams as per the schedule prepared by the state education department