A school report card carries the student and school identification, the assessment period, subject-wise marks or grades against maximum and passing marks, the grading scale used, attendance for the period, teacher remarks, and the signatures of the class teacher and head of institution. The grading key must be printed on the card itself.
Boards prescribe their own report card structures and several states regulate what may appear. Follow your board’s current format; this covers what is common to all of them.
A report card is read by someone who does not know your grading scheme — a parent comparing against their own schooling, a receiving school in another state, an admissions office abroad. Every one of them will misread it if the scale is not on the page.
The most common defect in Indian report cards is not an error in the marks. It is a grade letter with no key, or a percentage with no statement of what it was computed from.
Common to CBSE, CISCE, state and international formats.
| Field | Why it is there | Where it goes wrong |
|---|---|---|
| School name, address, affiliation number | Identifies the issuing institution | Affiliation number omitted, needed for verification |
| Student name, class, section, roll number | Identity, matching the admission record | Everyday name rather than the record name |
| Assessment period | Which term or examination this reports | Just "Annual", where several assessments feed it |
| Subject-wise marks with maximum | A mark without its maximum means nothing | Marks shown without maxima, so 38 looks like a failure |
| Pass mark per subject | Lets a parent read the result without asking | Assumed to be known; it varies by board and subject |
| Grading key, printed on the card | The card travels to people who do not know your scale | Grades printed with no key anywhere on the page |
| Internal and external components, separated | They are assessed differently and should read differently | Combined into one figure, losing the distinction |
| Attendance for the period | Context for the result | Cumulative for the year on a term card |
| Teacher remark | Written by a person who taught the child | Generated text published under a teacher’s name |
| Signatures and date | Accountability for what is stated | Issued unsigned as a PDF, then queried |
A card reading "B2" is uninterpretable without a key, and cards outlive the schemes that produced them. A student presenting a Class VIII card at a job interview twelve years later is presenting a document nobody can read.
So the key is printed on the card, and the scheme is versioned by academic year. Reprinting an earlier year reproduces the key that applied then rather than today’s.
A remark on a report card is a statement by a named teacher about a named child, and a parent reads it as one. Generating that text and printing it under the teacher’s signature is a misrepresentation of who said it, however good the sentence is.
A comment bank a teacher chooses from is a different thing entirely: the teacher selects and edits, and the judgement stays theirs. That is what we provide, and it is the only form of assistance here we consider defensible.
Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.
Several boards discourage it and some state rules restrict it, particularly at primary level. If your school publishes rank it is your figure to publish; we do not compute or add one that the school has not chosen to issue.
It reproduces under the scheme and format that applied that year, not today’s. A card recomputed under a newer scheme would be a different document from the one originally issued, which is not a reprint.
Yes, and most schools running two boards need to. The format follows the enrolment, so a CBSE stream and an IGCSE stream in the same building each get their own.
Checked by the Implementations desk on 7 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.
Pricing is on the page, in the open, with the counting rule written next to it. Nobody has to book a call to find out what it costs.
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