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Continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) helps in identification of areas for which the student has aptitude and interests. As a result, it helps in focusing efforts in identifying the areas where changes in value systems and attitudes are required. CCE helps the individual students to make decisions regarding the future pertaining to the courses, choice of subjects and carriers to be chosen in future life. CCE helps in generating appropriate information/reports pertaining to the progress of the students with regard to scholastic as well as co-scholastic areas and thus help in predicting the future performance and success of the learner. Continuous evaluation helps the evaluator to diagnose the weaknesses of the students and permits the teacher to ascertain the weaknesses and strengths of the individual learner along with his/ her needs. CCE provides an instant and immediate feedback to the teacher who can then come to a conclusion if there exists a need to revisit a particular concept or unit and teach the same to a few individual students who are in need of remedial instruction or to the entire class. Objectives of the study are to find out the significant differences in the awareness of teachers on continuous and comprehensive evaluation in secondary schools due to variations in their gender and years of experience. The method that has been adopted by the investigator in the present research study is the survey method. The total number of statements in the questionnaire was 66 with 8 dimensions. The findings of the study will draw the attention of all policy planners, school administration and stakeholders to take necessary steps for smooth functioning of CCE in secondary schools. In the light of findings of the study few recommendations are made for effective implementation of CCE.