Holistic Progress Card & Auto Marksheet Software

The full 360° Holistic Progress Card — covering academic + co-curricular + life-skill + self-assessment + peer / teacher feedback — is on Apna School’s active product pipeline. CBSE has begun phasing in the HPC format from FY 2025–26 onwards across affiliated schools, and several state boards are following. We’re building it carefully, in consultation with school principals, so that the published HPC matches the official NEP 2020 framework rather than just rebadging the existing marksheet. What works today: a real three-tier exam system (Exam, Class Test, Unit Test), two printable marksheet formats, fully configurable grade band and division rules, subject-type mapping (Compulsory / Optional / Practical), admit card generator, and a result-visible parent app. What ships next: the official 360° HPC layout, with the multi-domain assessment, growth-tracked-across-sessions view, and parent narrative section. Free for existing schools. Read more in our HPC guide.

No. The 360° Holistic Progress Card will be released as a free upgrade to every existing Apna School subscription. No new module fee, no separate “HPC add-on”, no upgrade-tier — same flat ₹4,999 / year subscription. This is our standing commitment for everything Apna School ships into the pipeline: features that go in the ₹4,999 yearly bundle stay in the ₹4,999 yearly bundle. The only items we don’t bundle are usage-based costs (WhatsApp / SMS wallet) which the school controls anyway. So if your school subscribes today and the HPC ships in the next few months, you get it — same login, same panel, no payment, no migration.

Yes — the marksheet for a CBSE-affiliated school is fully automatic. The school configures (once) the CBSE-style grade band (A1 95+, A2 91–94, B1 86–90, B2 81–85, C1 71–80, C2 61–70, D 51–60, E 33–50, F <33), the division rule (First ≥ 60%, Second ≥ 45%, Pass ≥ 33% — or whatever the school’s policy says), the subject-wise minimum pass marks, and selects one of two pre-built marksheet templates. From then on: the subject teacher enters marks once; the system computes total, percentage, subject-wise grade, overall grade, division and pass / fail; the marksheet PDF is one click. The school logo, CBSE affiliation number, student photo and admission number are pre-printed. No Excel formula maintenance, no Word template surgery. Same automation works for ICSE, RBSE, UP Board, MP Board, Bihar Board — just the grade table differs. Deep-dive on the CBSE flow in CBSE school management software.

The three-tier exam system is Apna School’s answer to the way Indian schools actually assess: Exam (full formal exams — Half-Yearly, Annual, Pre-Board, Board — with subject-wise written marks, sometimes a practical component), Class Test (monthly tests, often per-subject, lighter than a full exam), and Unit Test (subject- and lesson-level mini tests — typical for primary classes following NCERT chapter-level assessment). Each tier is an independent module with its own configuration: max marks, grade table, division rule, marksheet template. The same student can have a Half-Yearly result, three Class Test results and twelve Unit Test results, all separate and all preserved. Most competitor school ERPs collapse this into one “Exam” module that papers over reality — the three-tier model maps directly to how Indian classrooms run.

Yes — two pre-built marksheet formats are bundled (a CBSE-style portrait layout and a state-board-style landscape layout), and either can be picked per exam. The marksheet auto-includes school logo, school name, CBSE / state-board affiliation, school UDISE code, student photo, admission number, name, class, section, exam name, subject-wise marks, total, percentage, grade, division and pass / fail outcome. For schools that need a third custom layout (a specific state-board format or a school-specific design with different language script), our team can ship a custom template as part of the onboarding bundle — included in every plan, no extra charge. The Hindi-script subject names render correctly for Hindi-medium schools. Read about Hindi-medium fit in our Hindi school software guide.

Subjects are mapped as Compulsory / Optional / Practical. For a Practical subject (typical for science subjects in CBSE / ICSE), the school configures the written component max marks and the practical component max marks separately. The marks-entry screen shows two columns; the marksheet prints both components plus the combined total; the grade applies on the combined total per the school’s grade band. For ICSE schools where some subjects have a 50:50 written:practical split (Physics, Chemistry, Biology), this is exactly how it works. For state-board schools where a vocational subject has a 30:70 split, configure those numbers per subject and the marksheet adapts. Optional subjects can be configured to be included or excluded from the overall percentage and division calculation, depending on the board’s rule.

Yes — same database, immediate visibility. The Apna School parent app and the school’s admin panel use the same cloud database (no batch upload, no overnight sync). The moment the subject teacher saves the marks-entry screen, the parent app for every linked guardian shows the subject-wise marks, computed grade, division and overall result. The full printable marksheet PDF is also one tap away on the parent app. For schools that want to hold back result visibility until the principal officially announces results (common at year-end), there is a per-exam “publish to parents” toggle — until you flip it on, the parent app shows “result pending” rather than the marks. After the principal flips it on, every parent sees their child’s result instantly. Read about the parent app’s real-time design in our school mobile app page.

Yes — multi-academic-session is built into the data model from Day 1. Each session (2024–25, 2025–26, 2026–27…) is an isolated scope, but the student record persists across sessions. So when the 360° Holistic Progress Card ships, it will already have multi-year history to draw from — the “growth-tracked-across-sessions” view that NEP 2020’s HPC framework asks for is feasible from a data-design perspective today. In the current marksheet flow, you can already pull a student’s last-session marksheet alongside the current-session marksheet for any parent meeting or board inspection. Read about Apna School’s NEP 2020 alignment in our NEP 2020 readiness guide.