Some of the important problems of secondary education in Assam are as follows :

(i) Lack of mass appeal: Secondary education does not have mass appeal. We have given priority to primary education as well as higher education. But secondary education has not been given proper attention.

(ii) Lack of adequate resources or finance: Finance is the biggest constraint in the field of secondary education in Assam. The financial allocation for secondary education is not adequate. Hence, it poses a challenge to our educational planners as they have to work under the constant increasing number of limited resources available for it. Therefore its quality remains poor.

(iii) Unplanned expansion: Unplanned expansion is another important problem of secondary education in Assam. Now primary education has lost its functional value and the social demand for secondary education is increasing. Government and private agencies tried to meet the social demand for secondary education by opening more and more schools. May of these schools were allowed to function at substandard levels, leading to a weakening of standards.

(iv) Unsuitable Curriculum: The secondary school curriculum is not suitable to meet the needs of the students as well as the society. The curriculum of secondary education is not related to the real and practical life of the students. They follow the syllabus mechanically without interest.