AP 1st to 10th Class FA3 Syllabus 2025-26 | Formative Assessment 3 Exam Topics

An MCQ will contain a question stem with two to four logically framed options. The wrong options will help in the identification of students’ misconceptions. Students will need to pick one option among the choices given, as the correct answer. MCQs have the following advantages:

1. They help test a wide variety of skills, from knowledge of facts to application and inference.
2. They help in pinpointing common errors made by students.

These are open-ended questions where students will write their own responses without any restrictions. These questions can include:

• Fill in the blanks: Easy to construct
• Very short answers: Help test the writing skills of the students effectively
• Short Answers: Tested to check the writing and sentence creation skills of students, or to test the understanding or definition of a particular concept
• Long Answers:

When asked in Language, offer students an opportunity to demonstrate their thinking ability, creativity, and writing skills.

In Mathematics, such questions help teachers understand the thought process of a student based on the method the student uses to arrive at an answer, thereby gauging the knowledge and understanding of a concept.