According to RTE Act, admission of children to a particular class has been…

Concept: The RTE Act, 2009 (Section 4) provides for age-appropriate admission — a child of the specified age group (6-14 years) who has not been admitted to any school, or who was admitted but could not complete elementary education, must be admitted to a class appropriate to his or her age, not to a class decided by any test of ability or by other social criteria.

Application: Applying this to the present question, admission of a child to a particular class under the RTE Act is decided by the age of the child, because the Act places children directly into the age-appropriate class rather than screening them by aptitude tests, parental background, or economic status.

Contrast:

• The ability of the child is not used, because Section 13 of the Act bars any screening procedure or interview for admission.

• The education of the parents is not used, because the Act does not condition class placement on parental qualification.

• The socio-economic status of the child is addressed separately by Section 12(1)(c), which reserves 25% of entry-level seats in private unaided schools for economically weaker sections — a seat-reservation rule, not a class-placement rule.

Hence, admission to a particular class under the RTE Act is based on the age of the child.