The individual assessment of Jivraj Singh, a Class 8 student at a government school in Jodhpur, shows that he is ‘excellent’ at understanding and using statistics (3/3 stars), and has excellent knowledge about ancient civilisations and rights and duties in the Constitution too. His understanding of stories and poems is at an ‘improving’ level (2/3), as is his grasp of number rules in mathematics and the natural environment and resources in science. The assessment also indicates that, along with his friend Aditya, Jivraj is at an improving level in solving numerical problems, learning and using new words, and understanding the properties and changes of matter.

While Aditya is rated as ‘learning’ (1/3) in understanding democratic governance, Jivraj is ‘learning’ to apply science to everyday life. The individual assessments of Jivraj and Aditya on each topic – from learning to excelling – are part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiative by the Jodhpur district administration and education department officials, with separate reports prepared in a matter of seconds for each student. As part of the second phase of the Competency-based Census Assessment and School Reporting Pilot Project, covering over a thousand schools across all 15 blocks of Jodhpur, answer sheets of over 70,000 students of Classes 6–9 were graded using AI in five subjects — English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science, and Social Science — resulting in over 3 lakh assessments across Hindi and English-medium schools.