Comprehensive OTBA Geography XI

POINTS TO NOTE• It will be applicable to Biology Economics and Geography.• This will be a part of Annual Examination to be held in March2015.• The schools will be supplied with textual material in few monthsbefore the commencement of annual examinations.• A textual material may be in the form of an article a casestudy a diagram a concept/mind map a picture or a cartoonproblem/situation based on the concepts taught to the studentsduring the session.• It will be to the extent of 15–20 per cent in the subjects ofEconomics Geography and Biology and may also include theValue Based Questions.• The textual material will be related to chosen concepts takenfrom the syllabi.• OTBA will have questions of higher order thinking skills andsome of which may be subjective creative and open ended.• The textual material supplied earlier will be printed again aspart of the question paper and thus will be available whileanswering the questionsThe question paper in each subject—Economics Geographyand Biology will have a separate section of 10 marks for OTBA.• The OTBA section will comprise of text material accompaniedby 2–3 questions based on that text. The questions based ontext will be of higher order thinking skills requiring studentsto apply learnings to the situations given in the article/report/case study and draw inferences/conclusions therefrom. Thequestions based on the text will be open ended extrapolative