Nearly five years after tech-savvy Karnataka made computer literacy test mandatory to facilitate paperless governance, the government employees have managed to score only ‘just pass’ marks.

For polarising and utilising information technology in governance, the State Legislative Assembly has made computer literacy test mandatory for all its Group ‘C’ employees below the age of 50.

This paper tested the deep-level reasoning questions effect in the domains of computer literacy between eighth and tenth graders and Newtonian physics for ninth and eleventh graders. This effect ...