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The Board-Format Card & Academic Record for Exam Cells

The marks are graded. Now build 600 cards — to the right board format, by hand. Or render them, and keep the record.

This is the card the parent receives — computed results rendered onto the correct board format (CBSE, ICSE, State Board, NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card), and the cumulative academic record kept across years. The document and the record, not the grading.

For exam cell & academic-records in-charge · multi-board format library · NEP HPC · academic record · renders the grade, doesn't compute it.

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In plain English

Report cards & academic records owns the document at the end of the assessment cycle — the board-correct report card a parent receives, and the cumulative academic record kept for each student across years. Its job is rendering and record-keeping, not computing: it takes results that have already been graded and lays them onto the right board's format — CBSE (Sahodaya), ICSE, State Board, or the NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card. The grade itself — 80+20, 9-point, FA/SA — is computed by the examinations feature; the exam cycle (schedule, marks entry) is the exams-and-assessments solution; the teacher remark is the report-card-narration feature; result trends are analytics & reporting. This page is the card and the record.

Board-format library
CBSE · ICSE · State
· NEP HPC
NEP 2020 HPC
Foundational + Preparatory
· PARAKH domains
Academic record
cumulative history
kept across years
Renders, not computes
the grade comes from
examinations
A real term-end · multi-board school · the format library

Four boards, four cards — and the one column that shows what this page doesn't do.

Mrs Menon's school runs CBSE and a State Board wing, and is piloting the NEP HPC in the primary years. At term-end she doesn't build four kinds of card by hand — each renders to its board. Note the last column: every figure is computed elsewhere and rendered here.

Report-card format library · one school, several boards Renders the result
Board / stageCard formatWhat's rendered onto itFigures computed by
CBSE (IX–X)Sahodaya formatgrades, 9-point, FA/SAexaminations
CBSE (XI–XII)CBSE senior formatmarks + grade→ examinations
State Board wingState formatstate grading pattern→ examinations
Primary (pilot)NEP 2020 HPCholistic domains, PARAKH→ examinations + narration
All cards→ rendered & filedto the academic recordthis page
The last column is the whole boundary: this page never computes a grade — the examinations feature does that against each board's scheme. What this page owns is laying those computed figures onto the right card and keeping each in the cumulative academic record. One school, four formats, no hand-building — and the trends across all of it are read in analytics, not here.
Where the term-end report card goes wrong

Four ways the card becomes a week of pain.

Hand-built, teacher to teacher

Cards built in Word or Excel vary section to section — different fonts, different layouts, the odd arithmetic slip — so the school's report card looks inconsistent and a re-totalling error reaches a parent.

The wrong board's template

A CBSE wing and a State Board wing get forced into one template that satisfies neither board exactly, and the NEP HPC becomes a separate manual exercise nobody has time for.

Records in a filing cabinet

Past cards live as loose printouts in a cupboard, so when a transfer certificate or a board record is needed, someone spends a morning digging — and a year's card is simply missing.

Re-keying the graded marks

The marks were already computed in the exam module, then typed again into the card template by hand — the same figures entered twice, inviting exactly the errors a report card can't afford.

How a card gets made

From computed result to the board card, filed in the record.

1

Start from the computed results

The results have already been graded — marks entered and the grade computed by the examinations feature against the board's scheme. This page begins where that ends: with figures ready to be laid onto a card, not raw marks to calculate.

2

Pick the board format for the section

Each section's card is set to its board — the CBSE Sahodaya format, the ICSE format, a State Board's format, or the NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card — so a school running more than one board produces each on its own correct card.

3

Lay the results and remarks onto the card

The computed grades, the CGPA or FA/SA figures, and the teacher's remark (written in report-card-narration) are laid onto the chosen format in the right places, so the card reads exactly as that board expects.

4

Generate, check and publish the card

The finished card is generated for review and then published to the parent — the document the family actually receives, board-correct and consistent across the class, rather than a hand-built sheet that varies teacher to teacher.

5

Keep it in the cumulative academic record

Each term's card is kept in the student's cumulative academic record across years, so the school holds a complete history — for a transfer certificate, a board requirement, or seeing a child's progression — while result trends are read in analytics & reporting.

The formats this builds to

Each board's card, the way that board expects it.

CBSE & ICSE formats

The CBSE report card in the Sahodaya format with 9-point grading and FA/SA structure, and the ICSE format — each rendered as its board specifies, from the results the examinations feature computes.

NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card

The HPC for the Foundational and Preparatory stages, reporting across holistic domains aligned to the PARAKH framework — produced from the same results and record as a traditional card, not as a separate manual exercise.

State Board formats + the record

The major State Board card formats, with regional-language support, plus the cumulative academic record that keeps every term's card across years — the durable history behind each term's snapshot.

Framework references: CBSE Sahodaya report-card format + 9-point grading; ICSE/CISCE format; State Board formats; NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card (Foundational + Preparatory) aligned to PARAKH. The grade computation (80+20, 9-point, FA/SA) is owned by the examinations feature; the exam cycle by the exams-and-assessments solution; the teacher remark by report-card-narration; result trends by school-analytics-reporting. This page renders the card and keeps the record.

Card + record vs grading engine vs exam cycle vs remark vs analytics · what this page owns

The report-card document ≠ the grading engine ≠ the exam cycle ≠ the remark ≠ the result analytics.
This page owns the card and the record; the rest are their own pages.

SchoolDeck keeps the card document distinct from the grading engine, the exam workflow, the remark writer and the analytics on purpose — five jobs that meet at "results," so this page ranks for the report card and never competes with the exam or analytics pages.

This page owns

  • The board-format card library — CBSE (Sahodaya), ICSE, State Board, NEP HPC.
  • Rendering computed results onto the right board's card.
  • The NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card as a supported format.
  • The cumulative academic record kept across years.
  • Multi-board in one school — the right card per section.

This page defers to

  • The exam scheme + grading engine — 80+20, 9-point, FA/SA computation — lives in Examinations. It computes the grade; this page renders it.
  • The exam cycle — scheduling, hall tickets, marks entry — lives in the Exams & Assessments solution. It runs the cycle; this page formats its output.
  • The teacher remark text — the narrative comment — lives in Report-Card Narration. It writes the words; this page places them.
  • The result trends + dashboards — across the class or school — live in Analytics & Reporting. It shows the aggregate; this page is the per-student card.
Three report-card realities

The same card engine, three kinds of school.

The format library is the same; which card matters shifts with the school.

Single-board CBSE

Consistent Sahodaya cards

A CBSE school produces every section's card to the Sahodaya format with 9-point grading, consistent across the school — no teacher-to-teacher variation, the marks rendered straight from examinations.

Multi-board school

The right card per wing

A school with a CBSE wing and a State Board wing sets each section to its format, so each parent receives the card their board expects — from one system, without a compromise template.

NEP HPC adopter

Holistic card without the extra work

A school moving its primary years to the NEP HPC produces the holistic card from the same results and academic record, with domains and the narration remark — not as a separate manual exercise.

From the field

Kozhikode, Kerala · CBSE + State Board school · exam cell in-charge.

"I run the exam cell, and term-end used to be the week I dreaded — once the marks were graded, we still had to build every report card by hand, and ours is not a simple school: we have a CBSE wing, a State Board wing, and we've started the NEP Holistic Progress Card in the primary classes. Three different cards, built in templates, with the marks re-typed from the exam sheets — which is exactly where a slip reaches a parent. Now the results come across already graded from the exam module, and this lays them onto the right card for each section automatically. I want to be precise about the division of labour, because I asked: it doesn't calculate the grade — that's the examinations side — and it doesn't write the remark, that's the narration tool. What it does is produce the correct card for each board and keep every term's card in the child's record, so when a transfer certificate is needed it's all there. The trends and dashboards I look at separately in the analytics page. Each thing in its place — that's what finally made term-end calm."
Mrs Rukmini Menon Exam Cell In-Charge · CBSE + State Board school · Malaparamba, Kozhikode-673009, Kerala
Multi-board report-card format library (CBSE Sahodaya · State Board · NEP HPC) · renders computed results · cumulative academic record across years · grade computed by examinations, remark by narration
Quick answers

Report cards & academic records, asked and answered.

What every exam cell in-charge and Principal asks before they move report cards off hand-built templates.

What does report cards & academic records do?
It produces the board-correct report card a parent receives, and keeps the cumulative academic record across years. Its job is rendering and record-keeping: it takes results that have already been graded and lays them onto the right board's format — CBSE (Sahodaya), ICSE, a State Board, or the NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card — and preserves the academic history. It does not compute the grade (that is the examinations feature), run the exam cycle (the exams-and-assessments solution), write the remarks (report-card-narration), or show result trends (school-analytics-reporting).
How is this different from exams & assessments?
The exams and assessments solution runs the cycle — scheduling exams, hall tickets, marks entry and grading — and ends by publishing a result. This page owns the card and the record that result is rendered into and kept as. Think of it as the end of the pipeline: the exam solution produces the graded result; this page lays it onto the correct board format and files it in the academic record. They are sequential, not the same — one runs the assessment, the other formats and keeps its output, so each ranks for its own job.
Does it compute the grade or CGPA?
No — it renders the grade, it does not calculate it. The exam scheme and grading engine — the Class 10 80+20 split, the 9-point grading, the FA/SA rules — are owned by the examinations feature, which computes the figures. This page takes those computed figures and lays them onto the board card in the right places. Keeping the grading engine and the card on separate pages means the calculation logic and the document each do one job: examinations works out the grade; this page presents it correctly.
Which report card formats does it cover?
The CBSE report card (Sahodaya format), the ICSE format, the major State Board formats, and the NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card — the Foundational and Preparatory stage HPC with its PARAKH-aligned holistic domains. The point of owning a format library is that a school running more than one board, or a school moving to the NEP HPC alongside a traditional card, produces each student's card on its own correct format rather than bending everything into a single template that satisfies no board exactly.
Does it write the teacher's remark on the card?
No — it places the remark, but the remark itself is written by the report-card-narration feature, which generates the personalised teacher comment (covering academics, behaviour and the NEP HPC domains) from a template, for the teacher to review. This page takes that remark and lays it onto the card in the right place. So narration produces the words; this page positions them on the board-correct document alongside the grades. The two connect at the card, but writing the comment and formatting the card are different jobs.
What is the NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card?
The NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card (HPC) is the holistic report format introduced under the National Education Policy, moving beyond marks alone to report a child's progress across domains, aligned to the PARAKH framework, at the Foundational and Preparatory stages. This page produces the HPC as one of its supported card formats, so a school adopting it can generate the holistic card from the same results and academic record it uses for a traditional report card, rather than maintaining the HPC as a separate manual exercise.
What is kept in the academic record?
Each term's report card and the results behind it are kept in the student's cumulative academic record across the years they are at the school, so the school holds a complete, consistent history rather than a drawer of loose cards. This matters when a transfer certificate is needed, when a board or inspection asks for records, or simply when a teacher or parent wants to see a child's progression over time. The record is the durable history; the card is each term's snapshot of it.
How is this different from analytics & reporting?
The analytics and reporting solution shows result trends and dashboards — how a class or the school is doing across terms, read live by a Principal. This page produces the individual student's card and keeps their record. One is the aggregate, live view for the school; the other is the per-student document the parent receives and the history the school files. They draw on the same underlying results but serve different readers and purposes, so a Principal watching result trends uses analytics, and a parent receiving their child's card gets it from here.
Can one school run more than one board's cards?
Yes — that is exactly why owning a format library matters. A school with a CBSE wing and a State Board wing, or one transitioning sections to the NEP HPC, sets each section to its correct format and generates the right card for each student. Because the formatting is configurable per board rather than a single fixed template, the school is not forced to compromise one board's card to fit another's. Each card comes out the way its board expects, from one system.

Stop building 600 cards by hand at term-end.
Render them to the right board, keep the record.

We'll show you the board-format library — CBSE, ICSE, State Board and the NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Card — rendering computed results onto the right card, and the cumulative academic record across years, on your school's actual data.

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