Glossary
School office terms, explained.
Short, plain definitions of the acronyms, forms and registers that come up in Indian school and college administration, each with its sources.
Terms starting with A
- Admit card
- An admit card is the document a candidate takes to a board exam. At CBSE and CISCE, schools download it from the board's portal and give it to students.
- APAAR IDAutomated Permanent Academic Account Registry
- An APAAR ID is a permanent 12-digit student ID in India, linked to DigiLocker and the Academic Bank of Credits. A child's ID needs a parent's consent.
Terms starting with B
- Bonafide certificate
- A bonafide certificate is a letter from a school or college confirming that a named person is currently its student, issued for a stated purpose.
Terms starting with C
- CCEContinuous and Comprehensive Evaluation
- CCE (Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation) was CBSE's school-based assessment scheme. It began in 2004, was strengthened in 2009 and ended in 2017.
Terms starting with F
- Fee concession
- A fee concession is a cut in the fees a school charges one student, such as a sibling, staff-ward or merit discount, approved and recorded by the school.
Terms starting with N
- Nominal roll
- A nominal roll lists an exam's candidates by name, with date of birth, parents' names and centre. Uttarakhand's school board posts them centre by centre.
Terms starting with R
- Report card
- A report card is a school's record of a student's progress, given to parents each term or year: subject marks or grades, co-scholastic grades and remarks.
- RFID attendanceRadio-frequency identification attendance
- RFID attendance records students or staff as present when they tap or pass an RFID card or tag near a reader, instead of a teacher calling the roll.
Terms starting with S
- School ERPEnterprise resource planning
- A school ERP is software that runs a school's administration in one system: admissions, records, attendance, fees, exams, report cards and parent messages.
Terms starting with T
- Transfer certificate
- A transfer certificate (TC) is the certificate a school issues when a student leaves for another institution. The new school uses it to set their class.
Terms starting with U
- UDISE+Unified District Information System for Education Plus
- UDISE+ is the Ministry of Education's online system where every recognised school in India reports its profile, teachers and student-wise data each year.
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