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SST-26-02 Upcoming

Why Can High-Scoring Students Still Struggle with Real Problems?

29 Dec 2026 6 hours Classes 9–12 Educators TS Narayanan Guruji Ashram, AGY, Pudupakkam (Main Hall)

About this Session

  • Identify the gap between academic recall and real-world reasoning.
  • Teach students to analyse ambiguity and justify decisions.
  • Use unfamiliar contexts to strengthen transfer.

Key Learning Areas

  • Critical thinking
  • Reasoning with evidence
  • Decision making
  • Case-based learning
  • Unfamiliar and real-world problems

Professional Outcomes

  • Design tasks requiring reasoning rather than recall
  • Facilitate evidence-based decisions
  • Help students transfer knowledge
  • Assess quality of thinking

Take-back to Practice

Real-Problem Challenge: create one unfamiliar case requiring analysis, evidence and a justified decision.

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