The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi, have evolved an aptitude test for senior school students named as ‘Tamanna’ (Try and Measure Aptitude and Natural Abilities) to enable the stakeholders know the aptitude of classes 9 and 10 students. The aptitude test has been developed under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. As per the official website of ‘Tamanna’, details about use of aptitude test, dimensions measured in the test, construction and standardization of the test, administration and scoring and understanding the meaning of aptitude test scores are available in the test manual.

The aptitude test covers seven areas of Language Aptitude (LA), Abstract Reasoning (AR), Verbal Reasoning (VR), Mechanical Reasoning (MR), Numerical Aptitude (NA), Spatial Aptitude (SA) and Perceptual Aptitude (PA) along with Technical Manual.It also provides the details of construction and standardization of the rest, Test Booklet which contains items related to the seven dimensions measured and Guide for Teachers and Parents which consists of the features of the aptitude test, administration and scoring and understanding the meaning of the scores.