Internal Assessment / Project Work
Internal Assessment / Project Work is school-assessed and covers the project file, the viva, and continuous classroom work. Marks depend on evidence of your own fieldwork and reflection, not on how glossy the file looks.
What usually gets credited
- A stated objective and a method you actually followed.
- Primary material collected locally: an interview with an elder, a folk song (khulang eshei) transcribed, photographs of a ritual with captions, or a word list from your own dialect area.
- Analysis: what you noticed, what surprised you, what it connects to a prescribed lesson.
- Honest acknowledgement of sources and of the people who helped.
Project structure
Title → objective → area and method → collected material (transcripts, tables, images described in words) → findings in three to five points → conclusion → sources.
Worked example
Topic: 'Words for kinship in my village.' Reasoning: state an objective ('record 25 kinship terms and their uses'); describe the method (interviews with five speakers of different ages); present a table of term, meaning and speaker; then draw a finding (younger speakers use fewer distinct terms) and link it to the language-change theme in the prose lessons. That final link is what turns a list into a project.
Traps that cost marks
- Copying encyclopaedia paragraphs about Manipuri culture with no local data.
- Photographs with no caption or explanation of what they show.
- No findings section - just collected material.
- Uncredited help from a relative who wrote the analysis.
- In the viva, being unable to say why you chose your method or what you would do differently.