CBSE has released Open Text Book Assessment(OTBA) Material for Class 9th 2015. For Class 9th it is included in all subjects. This is only part of Summative Assessment II.

OTBA Matrial for Class IX

► It will be to the extent of 15-20 percent in all main subjects and may include the Value Based Questions.
► The textual material will be related to chosen concepts taken together 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.
► The question Papers in main subjects at Summative Assessment will be of 90 marks (in English of 70 marks + 20 marks for ASL) based on prescribed syllabus and question paper design.
► With the addition of OTBA of 10 marks, the total paper of Summative Assessment in a subject will be of 100 marks. However, weightage of SA will remain the same viz. 30%.

Subject & Code Units/Themes Theme for OTBA 2015 Marks Distribution
(valid for one theme)
English
(101 & 184)
Environment/
Tourism
1. India’s Tryst with Mars
2. The Cleaning-up Campaign  sweeps across the Country
5+5
Hindi
(002 & 185) 
 Education/
Health 
1. Swasthaya
2. Mangal par Bharat ka Mangla aagman 
5+5 
 Social Science Unit 4:
Chapter 3

Poverty as a
Challenge
1.  A Story of Two Brothers
2.  Living on the edge  
 5+5
 Science
(086/090)
Unit 4:
Our Environment
1. Understanding the Environment       of  Mars.
2. Clean India- We mean it!  
 2+3+5
Mathematics
(041)
Unit 7
Statistics
1. Atithi devo Bhava
2. Empower to Learn
3+3+4

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