Subbiah Pon. Tests of language proficiency for secondary (Standard X) level: Bengali

Central Institute of Indian Languages, 2005. — 358 p.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, Gujarathi, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu & Urdu and are being brought out one after the other.