NSQF Level Descriptors
| LEVEL | Process required | Professional Knowledge | Professional Skill | Core Skill | Responsibility |
| 1 | Prepares person to/carry out process that are repetitive on regular basis require no previous practice, | Familiar with common trade terminology, instructional words, meanings and understanding. | Routine and repetitive, takes safety and security measures. | Reading and writing; addition, subtraction; personal financing; familiarity with social and religious diversity, hygiene and environment. | No responsibility; always works under continuous instruction and close supervision. |
| 2 | Prepares person to/carry out processes that are repetitive, on a regular basis, with little application of understanding, more of practice. |
Material, tools and applications in a limited context, understands context of work and quality. | Limited service skills used in limited context; select and apply tools; assist in professional works with no variables; differentiate good and bad quality. | Receive and transmit written and oral messages, basic arithmetic, personal financing, understanding of social, political, and religious diversity, hygiene and environment. | No responsibility; works under instruction and close supervision. |
| 3 | Person may carry out a job which may require limited range of activities routine and predictable. | Basic facts, process and principle applied in trade of employment. |
Recall and demonstrate practical skill, routine and repetitive in narrow range of application |
Communication written and oral, with minimum required clarity, skill of basic arithmetic and algebraic principles, personal banking, basic understanding of social and natural environment. | Under close supervision. Some responsibility for own work within defined limit. |
| 4 | Work in familiar, predictable, routine, situation of clear choice. | Factual knowledge of field of knowledge or study. |
Recall and demonstrate practical skill, routine and repetitive in narrow range of application, using appropriate rule and tool, using quality concepts. |
Language to communicate written or oral, with required clarity, skill to basic arithmetic and algebraic principles, basic understanding of social political and natural environment. |
Responsibility for own work and learning. |
| 5 | Job that requires well developed skill, with clear choice of procedures in familiar context. | Knowledge of facts, principles, processes and general concepts, in a field of work or study.. | A range of cognitive and practical skills required to accomplish tasks and solve problems by selecting and applying basic methods, tools, materials and information. | Desired mathematical skill; understanding of social, political; and some skill of collecting and organising information, communication. | Responsibility for own work and learning and some responsibility for others’ works and learning. |
| 6 | Demands a wide range of specialised technical skill, clarity of knowledge and practice in broad range of activity involving standard and non-standard practices. | Factual and theoretical knowledge in broad contexts within a field of work or study. | A range of cognitive and practical skills required to generate solutions to specific problems in a field of work or study. | Reasonable good in mathematical calculation, understanding of social, political and reasonably good in data collecting organising information, and logical communication. | Responsibility for own work and learning and full responsibility fo other’s works and learning. |
| 7 | Requires a command of wide-ranging specialised theoretical and practical skills, involving variable routine and nonroutine contexts. | Wide-ranging factual and theoretical knowledge in broad contexts within a field of work or study. | Wide range of cognitive and practical skills required to generate solutions to specific problems in a field of work of study. | Good logical and mathematical skill understanding of social political and natural environment and organising information, communication and presentation skill. | Full responsibility for output of group and development. |
| 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. Critical understanding of the subject, demonstrating mastery and innovation, completion of substantial research and dissertation. |
Responsible for decision making in complex technical activities involving unpredictable work/study situations. | |||
| 10 | Highly specialised knowledge and problem solving skill to provide original contribution to knowledge through research and scholarship. | Responsible for strategic decisions in unpredictable complex situations of work/study. | |||