March 19, 2025 
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PARAKH-NCERT : PARAKH, a standard-setting body under the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), has been conducting workshops with school education boards across the country to start implementing the Holistic Progress Cards (HPCs) — a new format of assessment — at the secondary stage.
While most state boards have implemented HPCs at the foundational and preparatory levels, they are yet to implement it at the secondary stage (classes 9 to 12). The initiative is being taken under the education ministry’s department of school education and literacy.
HPCs are the new report cards developed for different school stages by PARAKH-NCERT to track students’ progress in a comprehensive manner instead of the traditional report cards that just focus on the marks obtained in each subject. This was done in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which envisages holistic assessment of students.
PARAKH functions as the standard-setting body for student assessment and evaluation for all school boards across the country.
While the HPCs for foundational stages (up to grade 2), preparatory stage (grades 3 to 5) and middle school (grades 6 to 8) were told to be implemented last year, the HPCs for secondary stage (grades 9 to 12) were released in June last year.
The HPC considers feedback from peers, parents, as well as self-assessment of students to track their progress in different domains throughout the year. For senior classes, the progress card also includes parameters such as their plans for future, career choices, vocational skills that they have acquired or plan to pursue.
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