Examinations
IIUI Schools engage students in all aspects of their learning and to ensure a balanced view of the student’s strengths and weaknesses an effective assessment system is inevitable. In a balanced assessment system, both summative and formative assessments are an integral part of information on student’s progress. Depend too much on one or the other and the reality of student achievement in a classroom becomes unclear. At IIUI Schools, this is maintained through a year round in practice assessment policy and formally arranged comprehensive end of the term examinations for Grade 3-8 twice in an academic year.
Assessment for Reception to Grade 2:
There are no formal end-of-term assessments in these classes. In Reception, Reception 1 and Reception 2 assessment is informal as there are no written tests. For Grade 1 and 2 no end-of-term exams are applicable but simple written assessments without grading will be used. First and Second Term report cards will be issued based on students’ formative assessment and work portfolios.
Assessment / Exams for Grade 3 to 8
Major components of merit based exam policy are ‘course work’ and examination for above grades. Two major exams will take place in one academic year, which is at the end of both terms. First Term report cards will be issued in January and Second / Final Report cards will be issued in June.
There will be one intermediary assessment report in each term sent to the parents, i.e. 1st assessment report in the last week of October and 2nd in the last week of March. Assessments may be based on assignments, projects, completion of one topic/unit, class work, or group work. Assessment Report will include average of Monthly Assessments. Only one assignment or project is allowed in a month.
Term Examinations are generally scheduled:
Reporting:
At IIUI Schools, comprehensive end of term reports for Reception to Grade 8 are written so that they have a positive effect on pupils’ attitude, motivation and self-esteem. However, Students’ Progress Reports for Reception to Grade 2 are written on the basis of formative assessments done throughout the term while Students’ Progress Reports for Grade 3 to 8 are a combination of both formative and summative assessment.
A distinct feature of terminal report for Grades 3 to 8 is the systematically determined ratio/marks allocation for assessment (marks secured in term tests) and examination (marks secured in the papers) as per the recent research and studies on assessment mix.
Following rules apply for Term Examinations:
- Short Questions (2-4 marks questions)
- Subjective Type (5 or more than 5 marks questions)
Assessment for Reception to Grade 2:
There are no formal end-of-term assessments in these classes. In Reception, Reception 1 and Reception 2 assessment is informal as there are no written tests. For Grade 1 and 2 no end-of-term exams are applicable but simple written assessments without grading will be used. First and Second Term report cards will be issued based on students’ formative assessment and work portfolios.
Assessment / Exams for Grade 3 to 8
Major components of merit based exam policy are ‘course work’ and examination for above grades. Two major exams will take place in one academic year, which is at the end of both terms. First Term report cards will be issued in January and Second / Final Report cards will be issued in June.
There will be one intermediary assessment report in each term sent to the parents, i.e. 1st assessment report in the last week of October and 2nd in the last week of March. Assessments may be based on assignments, projects, completion of one topic/unit, class work, or group work. Assessment Report will include average of Monthly Assessments. Only one assignment or project is allowed in a month.
Term Examinations are generally scheduled:
- 1st Term Exams in third week of December
- Centralized 2nd Term Exams in fourth week of May
Reporting:
At IIUI Schools, comprehensive end of term reports for Reception to Grade 8 are written so that they have a positive effect on pupils’ attitude, motivation and self-esteem. However, Students’ Progress Reports for Reception to Grade 2 are written on the basis of formative assessments done throughout the term while Students’ Progress Reports for Grade 3 to 8 are a combination of both formative and summative assessment.
A distinct feature of terminal report for Grades 3 to 8 is the systematically determined ratio/marks allocation for assessment (marks secured in term tests) and examination (marks secured in the papers) as per the recent research and studies on assessment mix.
Following rules apply for Term Examinations:
- Every term examination includes syllabus of that one term only. Syllabus of all the papers in each term will be set by the school.
- First term weightage is not carried forward to the final/second term at all.
- Promotion in the next higher grade will be based on the second term results only. However, it is essential for the child to get minimum 50% marks or ‘E’ Grade in round the year assessments.
- Positions will be announced on the basis of Second Term Examination Results/Reports only which will be percentile based. Therefore all students following in a grade range will secure the respective position concurrently.
- As promotion is based on whole year's performance of the student, hence importance of regularity in attendance is imperative.
- 90% attendance is a must for promotion to the next higher grade. However, Principal/Head may waive off 15% attendance under special circumstances.
- No re-test/exam is permitted. If a child is absent in any of the examination paper/s, on valid reason/s, he/she will be awarded right of re-exam only under very exceptional cases and within 3 working days after the examinations.
- Results declared at the end of the session are final in all cases and will neither be reconsidered nor will the answer paper/s be shown.
- No position/rank will be awarded if any subject is missed in the regular exam.
- Checked answer sheets will be given to students for review before result announcement. No answer sheets will be shown to parents. For any doubts an application may be given for review.
- In Grade 9 pre-board exam/Mock will be taken and entry will be sent on at least 50% marks obtained in Mock.
- There are no exam papers for Citizenship/Life Skills, Arts & Design, Poems & Stories and Sports/Fitness.
- Mental Maths, Reading (English & Urdu), Every Day Science, Every Day General Knowledge, Nazra/Tajweed, Arabic, Science Practical and ICT Practical portions of the respective papers are conducted before scheduled examination/theory paper.
- Examination papers are a mix of different types of questions such as:
- Short Questions (2-4 marks questions)
- Subjective Type (5 or more than 5 marks questions)