Competency-Based Questions
Real-life, application-first competency questions in the NEP/CBSE style.
What Competency-Based Questions does
Generates competency-based questions — items rooted in a real-life situation that ask students to apply a concept rather than restate it, in the style the NEP and CBSE have pushed to the centre of assessment. This matters because the board is steadily shifting marks toward competency items, so practice that looks like the old rote question no longer prepares students for the paper they will sit. Each question comes back as a card with its answer and reasoning.
Every input, explained
- This reference is generated from the live tool definition, field by field.
- Align to curriculum
- Country, curriculum, and year group — written to this curriculum's terminology. Required.
- Subject list is scoped to the board and class you picked above. Required.
- Chapter / Topic
- Optionally narrow the output to one chapter or topic from the canonical syllabus. Leave empty to let the AI stay at subject level. Optional.
- Topic / content
- e.g. e.g. Percentages and simple interest Required.
- Number of questions
- Default: 5. Optional.
- Output depth
- Choices: Concise — quick and tight · Standard · Detailed — extra depth & examples. Default: Standard. Optional.
- Choices: Yes — AI adds diagrams & images where helpful · No — text only. Default: Yes. Optional.
- Additional customization (optional)
- e.g. Anything else the AI should keep in mind — tone, format, constraints, examples… Optional.
How to use it
- Open Edukali AI Toolkit → All Tools, find Competency-Based Questions under Assessment and click the card.
- Fill in Align to curriculum, Subject, Topic / content (the remaining fields are optional).
- Choose an Output depth and, if you like, a specific AI model, then click Generate.
Not sure what to type? Click **Show example** in the form header — it fills every field with a real worked example (CBSE · Class 8 · Mathematics) and shows a pre-generated result without spending any AI credits. Undo restores your draft. The runner also gives you a ✨ prompt assistant and voice input on text fields, file upload to pull in your own notes, and — where your board publishes one — an official-format proof panel.
Your questions & where to send them
This tool returns structured question cards (not just text) — each question renders with its options, answer and solution, and you can review or deselect individual questions before routing them anywhere.
- Send to → Question Bank
- Saves the selected questions into your library so they show up in every picker.
- Send to → Paper Canva
- Builds a print-ready paper from the questions and opens it on the canvas.
- Send to → Online Exam
- Creates a ready-to-schedule online exam pre-loaded with these questions.
- Send to → OMR
- One click: saves the questions, builds a paper and creates an OMR exam with printable bubble sheets.
- Send to → Offline (Answer Sheet)
- Same one-click chain, but creates an offline answer-sheet exam for scan-and-grade workflows.
- Add to Course
- Attaches the questions to an LMS course as a graded exam activity — see Add to Course.
The best competency questions use contexts your students recognise — a local market, a bus fare, a household bill. If the generated scenario feels generic, add that context in the topic field and regenerate.