OTBA is Open Textbook assessment introduced by Central Board of Secondary Education CBSE

OTBA 2016 would be an open textbook assessment for class 9 and class 11 students.

The objective of OTBA is to relieve the students from the burden of mugging up of content and provide opportunities in the effective use of memory and acquiring skills of information processing.

Open Text based Assessment (OTBA) for Class IX

It will be applicable to all the main subjects.

This will be a part of Summative Assessment II

The Schools will be supplied with textual material in few months before the commencement of Summative Assessment II.

A textual material may be in the form of an article, a case study, a diagram, a concept/ mind map, a picture or a cartoon, problem/situation based on the concepts taught to be students during second term.

It will be to the extent of 15-20 percent in all the main subjects and may also include the Value Based Questions

The textual material will be related to chosen concepts taken from the syllabi

The Open Text based Assessment (OTBA) will have questions of higher order thinking skills and some of which may be subjective, creative and open ended.