Examination Guidelines

A.                Minimum Attendance for Session Ending Examination:

                A pupil may not be allowed to sit in the session-ending examination if he/she has not put in a minimum of 75 percent of the total attendance upto the 15^th of March of the academic session, including attendance put in a previous school if the student has been admitted on transfer. The Principal shall be competent to condone shortage in attendance upto 15 per cent in special circumstances meriting this concession e.g. illness etc.  The Assistant Commissioner shall be competent to condone the attendance of a students upto 50% to take the session-ending examination.  The Commissioner may give relaxation beyond this in exceptional cases.

B.                Provision for Children being admitted in the middle of the session:

Attendance for such children being admitted in the school shall be counted from the date of admission.  The required percentage of attendance shall be calculated  with reference to the date of admission and not from the beginning of the academic year.

In cases where a child has missed unit tests because of late admission, the proportionate weightage for unit tests may be arrived at on the basis of the unit test in which the child has appeared after his admission.  This will be applicable only to late admissions and no other case.  Example: If a child is admitted after two unit tests are over and secures 26 marks out of 40 in the remaining unit tests, his proportionate weightage would be 26/2=13 out of 20 in the final result.

For weightage for home assignments and projects, the child may be required to submit the same after admission and the same may be evaluated.

C.                Provision for Children who are absent in Tests/Examinations.

A separate test/examination may be conducted for a child who could not appear in the regular test/examination because of medical reasons.

On no other ground shall the absence of a child in appearing for a test or examination be condoned and for such absence, the child will be awarded No Grade for primary and ZERO for other classes in the said examination.

In an academic year if the occasion for this re-test for a child is more than  once, the matter would be reported to the Assistant Commissioner who will check the genuineness of the case.  The re-test would, however, be conducted pending directions from the Assistant Commissioner, but the outcome would be withheld pending the decision of the Assistant Commissioner

PROMOTION RULES:

A) The final assessment of a pupil will be based on his total achievement out of a maximum of 100 marks in each subject distributed as under:

                Grades will be awarded to students in non-scholastic subjects like Work Experience, Physical Education, Music, Yoga etc,. on the basis of their performance in the particular activity throughout the session.

B)            For Primary Classes:

Promotion from Classes I and II shall be decided on the basis of continuous and comprehensive assessment made every month of the work done in the class and assignments; given to the children.  No unit test, half-yearly examination and session-ending examination would be held for them.

All students of Classes I and II shall be promoted.

If a child gets E grade in 3 subjects or more in class III onwards, he/she can be detained in the same class with the consent of the parent.

In case the parent does not give consent, the student will be promoted to the next class.  However, if the students again gets E grade in 3 subjects or more in the next class the Principal shall detain the child in the same class.

The child who gets E grade in any 2 subject in class V will be given an opportunity to improve upon it and if he gets D grade even in one subject, he will be promoted to class VI.

Promotion from classes I upto V may be made on the basis of the total performance in periodical and mid-session tests/or informal final test.  It is expected that stagnation through failures will be nil or absolutely minimized in these classes.  The assessment of competencies and skills shall be made on a five point scale viz. A, B, C, D and E where E stands for needs guidance.

C)            For Classes VI to IX and XI.

Each student would need to pass the continuous and comprehensive evaluation as well as the annual examination. Separately with at least 33% marks. Thus, each child shall need to obtain note less than 20 marks out of 60 in each subject in the continuous and comprehensive assessment for class VI onwards and 13 marks out of 40 in annual examinations, for being promoted to the next class.  To pass the examination, a student must obtain not less than 33% marks in each of the academic subjects viz Languages, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies and at least 33% in the aggregate.

In classes IX and XI if a candidate secures less than 33% in one or two subjects in the session-ending examination, he will be eligible to take the supplementary examination in those subjects.  The candidate will be promoted to the next higher class only if he/she secures 33% marks in each of these subjects in the supplementary examination.  The supplementary  examination shall be conducted 3 weeks after the declaration of the results and would be conducted under the supervision of the Assistant Commissioner.

D)            Re-examination and Re-evaluation:

The Principal shall conduct no re-examination or re-evaluation of answer books.

In case of grave complaints of foul play, these matters will be referred to the Assistant Commissioner.   In situations where the Assistant Commissioner is satisfied that the evaluation process in the session-ending examination or the mid-term examination has not been fair, he may order only scrutiny of answer books of session-ending examination in cases where the child has scored very good marks in other subjects and failed in one or two subjects. Scrutiny will cover only re-totalling and marking of un-marked answers etc.