Tests of Language Proficiency Malayalam: For Secondary (Standard X) Level

The partial fulfilment of the objectives of the Institute, the Evaluation Unit has
undertaken a series of Programmes not only to identify the thrust areas of
requirement but also to develop specialized materials in those areas in various
Indian languages. The materials thus developed under the category of Special
Purpose Assessment Tools are being brought out in different series.
Item resources developed for the construction of proficiency tests at the level
of standard X are included in the Proficiency Test Series. The tools meant for the
assessment of various in house-programmes such as Refresher Courses, National
Integration Camps, Contact-cum-Correspondence Courses, Programmes of
teaching Indian languages as L, and their instructional materials are included under
the Programme Evaluation Series. These are available mostly in English. Similarly,
the item samples developed for the construction of graded tests of general ability in
language & literature applicable to all the seven levels of general education viz.,
primary, upper primary, secondary, higher secondary, graduate, post-graduate, and
research, are included in the General Ability Test Series.
The present volume is one of the constituents of the Proficiency Test
Series. The original suggestion to create a series of studies in proficiency as is
being presented now came from the Ministry (1989) at the instance of the then
Minister of Human Resource Development. The work initiated accordingly at
the secondary education level (std. X) continued for several years till it was
completed in all the fourteen major Indian languages viz., Assamese, Bengali,
Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada. Kashmiri,