All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has implemented a large-scale program to assess and improve the skills of engineering students in India in AICTE Approved Technical Institutions across the country. In respect of analysis, each of the online assessments (including those testing academic skills and those testing higher order thinking skills) may be used for comparing student outcome. More specifically, each of the Online assessments will be considered as unidimensional, reliable, and good at measuring a range of student ability. The AICTE-SLA project is designed to measure the benchmark levels and gains in academic and aptitude skills by the students in technical programs and to understand the various factors that affect skill development of students in Technical Institutes across India.