How Literature is Being Assessed in Ngee Ann Secondary School

In my school, most of the summative assessments are done formally; it will be a full essay assessing the students’ ability to comprehend and analyze whatever that was focused on for that term (i.e. unseen poem, unseen prose, drama etc) using the techniques and skills that was taught to them. For lower secondary, especially Secondary 1s, there are a bit more guiding questions to help and guide them in their answers.

For the formative assessments, however, it is more informal. There is no limit except that it has to of course be relevant to what the students are learning and are being assessed on. For the Secondary 1s, in the upcoming formative assessment, they will be writing a letter as the main character to another character. For the Secondary 3s, they will be given a quiz to test their knowledge on the first two acts, and they will also be given a homework assignment of writing a diary entry.