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How exams / tests work

Exams refer to official exams that take place once or twice a year. The end of year reports show results from official exams only.

Progressive Tests works exactly the same as exams except that it's not official meaning the end of year reports will not show these progressive tests. Furthermore, teachers can add progressive tests from teacher portal whereas official exams can only be added by admins.

Key points for exams:

Only system admins can add official exams.
Teachers can enter the results from teacher portal if the status of the exam is "open"
The results are shown on end of year/end of term reports.

Key points for progressive tests:

System admins and teachers can add progressive tests.
This is usually used to test students on a subject they've just finished. Some prefer to have monthly or bi-weekly progressive tests on the work they did that period.
The results are not shown on reports.
Progressive charts are available for these tests in the teacher's portal.
Parents can also view progressive tests results from the parent portal.

Important note:

Whether it's an official exam or a progressive test, each one will have "tests" within the exam. The word 'test' is used with 2 contexts:

Progress test
The tests that an exam/progressive test is made up of within subjects.

To demonstrate:

Half Year Exam 2019 - This is the title of the official exam.
- Hadeeth - this is a subject
  - Class 1, written, max marks 50 - This is one test for the exam
  - Class 2, written, max marks 85 - This is one test for the exam
- Seerah - this is a subject
  - Class 2, written, max marks 25 - This is one test for the exam
  - Class 3, written, max marks 100 - This is one for the exam
End of year exam 2019 - This is the title of another official exam
- Hadeeth - this is a subject
  - Class 1, written, max marks 100 - This is one test for the exam
  - Class 2, written, max marks 100 - This is one test for the exam
- Seerah - this is a subject
  - Class 2, written, max marks 100 - This is one test for the exam
  - Class 3, written, max marks 100 - This is one for the exam
July 2019 end progressive tests - This is a title of a progressive test that class 1's teacher added
- Qur'aan
  - Class 1, written, max marks 20
- Fiqh
  - Class 1, written, max marks 20
- Hadeeth
  - Class 1, written, max marks 20

As you can see, in terms of structure there is no difference between Exams and Progressive Tests. Both contain subjects which contain the tests that the students take for that subject.