Formative exam

Students are assessed based on performance over the unit. They are a combination of Revise Quiz scores, Try a Test scores and Homework.

Homework

How regular and qualitative the student is in homework submission is what is seen here. The teacher makes a note of homework submitted, its completeness, its neatness, whether the answers were mostly correct or mostly wrong. And all those get added up to homework marks. Missing a homework submission when actually absent is okay and accepted and not penalised.

Here is how the calculation works: all homework marks are added up and divided by the number of homeworks the student was supposed to submit. If a student is present and does not submit homework, that homework is counted in the denominator — it brings the average down. If a student is absent, that homework is excluded from the denominator entirely. So an absent student does not "lose marks" for that day's homework — it is simply not counted, neither in the numerator nor the denominator. That is what "absence is not penalised" means in practice.

Since Std 1 and 2 do not have formal homework, their distribution is as follows:
100% Revise Quizzes

For Std 3 to 8, in the formative marks, the distribution is as follows:
50% Homework
50% Revise Quizzes (+ Try a Test)

For Std 9 and 10, in the formative marks, the distribution is as follows:
25% Revise Quizzes = 5 marks
50% Try a Test = 10 marks
25% Submissions = 5 marks

Std 9 and 10 have an additional skill subject (IT)
Formative: 50 marks (based on practicals, submission)

Formative marks (over the unit) get added to the Summative marks (Unit Test) to get the overall Unit Test Result.

You can refer to the table HERE to see how this progression happens.
You can also read more about the philosophy of our exams HERE.