DEFINITION:
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.
OBJECTIVES:
Through this policy we aim to:
✔ Raise the standards of student achievement throughout the school
✔ Maintain accurate records of progress and attainment of individual student.
✔ Ensure consistency in assessing achievement and identifying achievable and challenging targets
for each student
✔ Enable the active involvement of students in their own learning
✔ Provide regular information to parents that enables them to support their ward’s learning
✔ Provide the information that allows school leaders and governors to make judgments about the
effectiveness of the school and to evaluate the school’s performance against its own previous
attainment over time and against national standards.
WISE believes in holistic progress of the students hence the teachers are trained to assess and track the
students’ progress through formative and summative assessments.
DIAGNOSTIC TEST AND VARK
Diagnostic test is a form of assessment that occurs before instruction begins. The purpose of
administering this test is to try to determine what students already know about the concepts and skills
to be covered by instruction. The tests are not graded. The tests can determine if differentiated
instruction is needed, and discover students’ preferred learning styles as well as their strengths,
weaknesses, and misconceptions.
Using these tests can help instructors plan differentiated instruction, lesson plans, teaching strategies,
and other classroom techniques to help all students in the classroom achieve their academic potential.
These tests are a very useful tool for instructors, because it can tell them where their students are with
respect to what they are planning to teach them.
When creating these tests, instructors should consider the following:
✔ What skills are to be assessed?
✔ Whether the assessment allows students to demonstrate mastery of those skills,
✔ If every component of the skills accounted for in the assessment,
✔ If students can respond in a different way than expected and still show mastery of the concepts.
FORMS OF ASSESSMENTS
1 Formative Assessment: This form of assessment is ongoing and continuous in nature. It measures a
learner’s performance in classroom tasks, projects, oral communications,
and assignments. Learner achievement is measured and recorded in the form of marks
and reported to parents in the form of grades.
2. Summative Assessment: This form of assessment is specific in nature. It measures a learner’s
understanding of knowledge and concepts taught through class tests and examinations. Learner
achievement is measured, recorded and reported to parents in the form of marks, and percentages.
3. Internal Assessment: This is an ongoing assessment based on the class work, homework, assignment
and completion of notebooks. Learners are assessed before the end of each term based on the

following parameters.
✔ Regularity
✔ Assignment Completion
✔ Neatness and upkeep of Notebook
4. Subject Enrichment: These are subject – specific activities aimed at enhancing the
understanding and skills of the students. These activities will be carried out throughout the
term; however they will be evaluated at the term end. These activities include:
✔ ASL for languages
✔ Practical /Lab work for Science, Math and Computers.
✔ Projects for SST
5. Multiple assessment (MA): Multiple assessments include use alternate modes of assessment
such as, quizzes, project-work, self and peer assessment, collaborative projects, experiments
and classroom demonstration
6. Portfolio (PF): portfolios would include classwork and homework assignments that would
help evaluate learner’s progress. Besides this, portfolio should be a space for student to
display his/her exemplary work in the form of annotation, identification of key words /
topics/ themes, summarization and organization of ideas and content, photos, presentations,
assignments, art integrated learning which will be evaluated at the term end.

ASSESSMENT PATTERN
1. Assessment scheme for Kindergarten to Grade 2
NAME OF THE EXAM SUBJECTS MAXIMUM
MARKS

MINIMUM
MARKS

TERM 1

Midterm assessment 1 English, Math,
Science

10 each 6

Internal Assessment 1 (CW/HW/
ASSIGNMENT/
ASL/PROJECT/EXPERIMENT/STEM)

All subjects 10 8

Term End 1 All subjects 20 10

TERM 2

Midterm assessment 2 English, Math,
Science

10 each 6

Internal Assessment 2 (CW/HW/
ASSIGNMENT/
ASL/PROJECT/EXPERIMENT/STEM)

All subjects 10 8

Term End 2 All subjects 20 10

TERM 3

Midterm assessment 3 English, Math,
Science

10 each 6

Internal Assessment 3 (CW/HW/
ASSIGNMENT/
ASL/PROJECT/EXPERIMENT/STEM)

All subjects 10 8

Term End 3 All subjects 20 10

2. Assessment scheme for Grades 3 to 5
NAME OF THE EXAM SUBJECTS MAXIMUM
MARKS

MINIMUM
MARKS

Diagnostic test English, Math,
Science

20 6
Periodic Test 1 All subjects 30 10
Internal Assessment (CW/HW/
ASSIGNMENT)

All subjects 10 8

Practical Skills
(ASL/PROJECT/EXPERIMENT/STEM)

All subjects 10 8
Periodic Test 2 All subjects 30 10
Internal Assessment (CW/HW/
ASSIGNMENT)

All subjects 10 8

Practical Skills
(ASL/PROJECT/EXPERIMENT/STEM)

All subjects 10 6
Summative Exam/ Final Exam All subjects 50 17
3. Assessment scheme for Grades 6 to 8
NAME OF THE EXAM SUBJECTS MAXIMUM
MARKS

MINIMUM
MARKS

Diagnostic test English, Math,
Science

20 6
Periodic Test 1 All subjects 30 10
Internal Assessment (CW/HW/
ASSIGNMENT)

All subjects 10 8

Practical Skills
(ASL/PROJECT/EXPERIMENT/STEM)

All subjects 10 8
Summative Assessment 1/ Half yearly All subjects 80 26
Periodic Test 2 All subjects 30 10
Internal Assessment (CW/HW/
ASSIGNMENT)

All subjects 10 8

Practical Skills
(ASL/PROJECT/EXPERIMENT/STEM)

All subjects 10 6
Summative Assessment 2/ final exam All subjects 80 26

4. Assessment scheme for Grades 9 & 10

Term1 Term 2 Cumulative ( Best of
MA,PT,SE,PE, Term)
MA1 PT1 SE1 PF1 T1 Total MA2 PT2 SE2 PF2 T2 Total MA PT SE PF Term Year
End

5. Co-Scholastic Assessment Kindergarten to Grade 5
✔ Co-Scholastic activities will be assessed on a 3-point grading scale term wise, the teacher
framing concerned effective tools for the same.
✔ Grading will not have any descriptive indicators and students will not be upgraded based on
the co-scholastic grades.
✔ Co-scholastic area will cover Art Education and Health & Physical Education.
✔ Students will be graded by the class teachers for discipline in a 3-point grading scale term
wise considering the attendance, sincerity, behavior and values.

6. Co-Scholastic Assessment Grade 6 to 9
✔ Co-Scholastic activities will be assessed on a 5-point grading scale term wise.

✔ Grading will not have any descriptive indicators and students will not be upgraded based on the co-
scholastic grades.

✔ Co-scholastic area will cover Art Education and Health & Physical Education.
✔ Students will be graded by the class teachers for discipline in a 3-point grading scale term wise
considering the attendance, sincerity, behavior and values.

Total

Grading System:
9 point grading Scale for Scholastic areas
Marks Range Grade
91-100 A1
81-90 A2
71-80 B1
61-70 B2
51-60 C1
41-50 C2
33-40 D
21-32 E1
00-20 E2
8 point grading Scale for Scholastic areas
Marks Range Grade
91-100 A1
81-90 A2
71-80 B1
61-70 B2
51-60 C1
41-50 C2
33-40 D
32 & Below E (Needs
improvement