Telangana’s rank in National Achievement Survey 2024 improves; but it is not in top-10 high performing States

Jangaon is the only district in Telangana that featured in the ‘50 high performing districts’ in the country in the assessment of grades 3, 6 and 9. Wanaparthy, Bhadradri Kothagudem, and Mulugu were in the 50 low performing districts. Telangana, however, showed an improvement compared to the last national survey conducted in 2021, for grades 3, 5 and 8.

The results are part of PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan, formerly National Achievement Survey (NAS), the national survey conducted by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to assess learning competencies of students in grades 3 (foundational), 6 (preparatory) and 9 (middle stage). The survey is conducted every three years.

Across the country, 781 districts in 28 States and eight Union Territories, over 21 lakh students were assessed in the survey. In Telangana, the assessment was conducted on December 4, 2024, in 3,342 schools in 33 districts.

As per the report, Telangana is not in the top-10 high performing States in the country, but it is also not in the 10 low performing States. As per an average, the State is ranked 26th in grade 3 and grade 6 assessment and 17th in grade 9. The State was 36th for grade 3 in the 2021 assessment.

According to a statement from director, School Education E. Naveen Nicholas, “This indicates that Telangana has exited the group of bottom-10 performing States for all classes.”

Also, “there is a clear 10% point improvement in language and Mathematics scores for class 3 students, and government schools, particularly those under State management, have performed better than private schools and Central government schools in core subjects in class 3,” he noted.

Further, the performance of class 6 students has also shown encouraging signs of academic recovery, although continued efforts are necessary to sustain gains and further strengthen basic literacy and numeracy skills, the note observed.

Decisions which contributed to better result

Officials in the School Education Department are also of the view that decisions such as teacher promotions, transfers, which enabled appropriate teacher deployment, combined with capacity building of teachers and close monitoring contributed to the better result.

Implementation of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy and academic support initiatives in the districts also helped the progress, they said.