NSQF LEVEL DESCRIPTORS

LEVEL Process required Professional skill Core skill Responsibility

Professional
knowledge

1 Prepares person Familiar with common Routine and No responsibility;

to/carry out process trade terminology, repetitive, takes safety Reading and writing; always works under
that are repetitive on instructional words, and security addition, subtraction; continuous
regular basis require meanings and measures. personal financing; familiarity instruction and
no previous practice, understanding. with social and religious close supervision.
diversity, hygiene and
environment.

2 Prepares person Material, tools and Receive and transmit written No responsibility;
to/carry out processes applications in a and oral messages, basic works under
Limited service skills
that are repetitive, on limited context, arithmetic, personal instruction and
used in limited
understands context financing, understanding of close supervision.
a regular basis, with context; select and
of work and quality. social, political, and religious
little application of apply tools; assist in
diversity, hygiene and
professional works
understanding, more of environment.
with no variables;
practice.
differentiate good and
bad quality.

3 Person may carry out Basic facts, process Recall and Under close
a job which may and principle applied demonstrate practical supervision.
Communication written and
require limited range skill, routine and
in trade of oral, with minimum required Some responsibility
of activities routine repetitive in narrow
employment. clarity, skill of basic for own work within
and predictable. range of application arithmetic and algebraic defined limit.
principles, personal banking,
basic understanding of social
and natural environment.

4 Work in familiar, Factual knowledge of Responsibility for

predictable, routine, field of knowledge or Recall and Language to communicate own work and
situation of clear study. learning.
demonstrate practical written or oral, with required
choice.
skill, routine and clarity, skill to basic
repetitive in narrow arithmetic and algebraic
range of application, principles, basic
using appropriate rule understanding of social
and tool, using quality political and natural
concepts. environment.
 5 Job that requires well Knowledge of facts, A range of cognitive Desired mathematical skill; Responsibility for
developed skill, with principles, processes and practical skills understanding of social, own work and
clear choice of and general concepts, required to accomplish political; and some skill of
learning and some
procedures in familiar in a field of work or tasks and solve collecting and organising
context. study.. problems by selecting information, communication. responsibility for
and applying basic others’ works and
methods, tools, learning.
materials and
information.

LEVEL Process required Professional skill Core skill Responsibility

Professional
knowledge

6 Demands a wide Factual and theoretical A range of cognitive Reasonable good in Responsibility for
range of specialised knowledge in broad and practical skills mathematical calculation, own work and
technical skill, clarity contexts within a field required to generate understanding of social,
learning and full
of knowledge and of work or study. solutions to specific political and reasonably good
practice in broad problems in a field of in data collecting organising responsibility fo
range of activity work or study. information, and logical other’s works and
involving standard and communication. learning.
non-standard
practices.

7 Requires a command Wide-ranging factual Wide range of Good logical and Full responsibility for
of wide-ranging and theoretical cognitive and practical mathematical skill output of group and
specialised theoretical knowledge in broad skills required to understanding of social development.
and practical skills, contexts within a field generate solutions to political and natural
involving variable of work or study. specific problems in a environment and organising
routine and nonroutine field of work of study. information, communication
contexts. and presentation skill.

8 Comprehensive, cognitive, theoretical knowledge and practical skills to
develop creative solutions to abstract problems.
Undertakes self-study; demonstrates intellectual independence,
analytical rigour and good communication.
Exercise management and supervision in the
context of work/study having unpredictable changes;
responsible for the work of others.

9 Advanced knowledge and skill.

Responsible for decision making in complex
Critical understanding of the subject, demonstrating mastery and technical activities involving unpredictable
innovation, completion of substantial research and dissertation. work/study situations.

10 Highly specialised knowledge and problem solving skill to provide Responsible for strategic decisions in unpredictable
original contribution to knowledge through research and scholarship. complex situations of work/study.