ASSET FAQ for Parents and Students

If children learn their fundamentals and concepts with understanding, they develop a strong foundation of confidence. This confidence increases their ability to work hard and perform well in stressful situations like the board exams.

On the other hand, memorisation increases the load on the student, especially when the topics and syllabus increase. This leads to increased stress, fear, loss of confidence, and a general dislike for learning and exams in general. So performance in the board exams becomes a function of a child’s memory, stress level and the nature and quantum of questions.

Besides, memorisation does not help in the later stages, when children have to attempt competitive exams. Competitive exams do not test content, but skills and aptitude. So, keeping track of your child’s development in terms of understanding and skills, will help the child in the long run.

ASSET acts as a neutral, third party assessment of the child’s achievement, in addition to the internal tests in the school.

ASSET

• Is a multiple choice test
• Has questions that are challenging and fun
• Does not disclose the child’s performance to other children or the school at large

There is no special preparation the child needs to make for the ASSET test. This test is only meant to test skills acquired and basic understanding of topics learnt.

Being an objective type test, the answer sheets are checked by OMR. A detailed analysis of the results is prepared. Based on this, we send an analysis report for each child, identifying the areas of strengths and the areas where improvement is needed. We also provide suggestions on how to work on improving the areas of weakness.

ASSET provides the following benefits to parents, children and schools:

• The skills that a child is expected to develop during the year.
• A graphic skill profile that shows your child’s strengths and weaknesses across 12 comprehensive skill nodes in the 3 subjects of English, Maths and Science.
• A detailed skill-wise break-up of each skill node and the performance of your child vis-à-vis other children all over India.
• A question wise analysis that provides an immediate tool to check whether the child made a silly mistake or there was a mistake in understanding of concepts.

This would enable you, as a parent, to understand what is expected from the child, help her to improve in her areas of difficulty and consequently perform better in all subjects.