CO-SCHOLASTICS

UNIFORM SYSTEM OF ASSESSMENT – 2019-2020
What is Assessment?
Assessment is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data to measure knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs. By taking the assessment, teachers try to improve the student's path towards learning. In education, the term assessment refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.
Need for Assessment:
Assessment in school serves the following purposes:
◦ To know the improvement of children in learning.
◦ To know the effectiveness of teaching practices.
◦ To understand the impact of curriculum on children and to check its feasibility.
◦ To follow alternate teaching-learning practices.
CCE Pattern of Assessment:
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) follows and strongly recommends continuous and comprehensive evaluation throughout the year. It means that a child has to be assessed throughout the year not merely at the end of the year. Assessment is evaluating the child as a whole not in a single aspect.
Areas of Assessment:
1. Scholastic Area
2. Co-Scholastic Area
SCHOLASTIC AREA- ASSESSMENT STRUCTURE AND EXAMINATION PATTERN
According to the revised pattern, the academic year is divided into two semesters.
1. Term 1
2. Term 2



There are four exams in an academic year which are as follows:
• Internal Assessment 1 and Half Yearly Exam in TERM I
• Internal Assessment 2 and Annual Exam in TERM II


ALLOTMENT OF MARKS IN EACH TERM
• Internal Assessment - 20 marks
• Written test - 80 marks
TOTAL MARKS FOR EACH TERM – 100
Split up of Internal Assessment:
1. Periodic Assessment – 10 marks
It includes the following:
▪ Pen and Paper Test 25 marks (Weightage 5 marks)
▪ Multiple Assessment (5 marks)
2. Notebooks/Portfolio – 5 marks
3. Subject Enrichment Activity – 5 marks
TOTAL MARKS – 20
GRADING SCALE FOR SCHOLASTIC AREAS (CLASSES VI-VIII)
Our School award grades as per the following grading scale recommended by Central Board of Secondary Education


CO-SCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES (CLASSES VI-VIII)
Our school conducts co-curricular activities to make sure of the holistic development of students. It is conducted term wise and the students were grade4don a three point grading scale.
Aspects of Co-Scholastic activities
1. Work Education - Work Education refers to skill-based activities resulting in goods or services useful to the community 
2. Art Education (Visual & Performing Art)
3. Health and Physical Education (Sports/Martial Arts/Yoga/NCC etc.)
Grading Scale for Co-Scholastic Areas (Classes VI-VIII)


DISCIPLINE (CLASSES VI-VIII)
Our school strongly believes that the discipline is the foundation of education. Without discipline, education cannot be imparted.
Disciplinary factors assessed:
A child’s discipline is assessed based on the observation and the feedback from the students and teachers. The factors assessed are the following: Attendance, sincerity, behaviour, values and tidiness, respectfulness for rules and regulations, attitude towards society, nation and others. Grading on Discipline will be done term-wise on a 3-point grading scale as co-scholastic areas.