The NIC System of Assessment

• For Grades 4 to 8

  Progression Tests
  

  • • Tests taken at the end of the school year
  • • Tests/assessments assess learning outcomes from the Grade 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 curriculum for each subject
  • • Purposes: to monitor learner progress; to provide a standard benchmark to assess performance, diagnose learner strengths and weaknesses, inform planning for subsequent years, aid reporting to parents

• For Grade 9

  Certificate of Nile International Preparatory Education (CNIPE) Achievement Tests
  

  • • Tests taken at the end of the Preparatory Stage
  • • Tests assess learning outcomes from the Grade 9 curriculum for each subject.
  • • Grade awarded for each subject by NIC
  • • Certificates are jointly issued by NIC and Cambridge
  • • Purposes: to measure learner performance; to provide a measure of school performance; to provide a measure of teacher performance; to assess performance, diagnose learner strengths and weaknesses, inform planning for subsequent years, aid reporting to parents

• For Grades 10 to 12

  Certificate of Nile Secondary Education CNISE Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 tests
  

  • • Tests/assessments assess learning outcomes from the relevant subject curriculum frameworks
  • • Grade awarded for each subject
  • • Certificates are jointly issued by NIC and Cambridge showing the grades awarded
  • • Level 1 certificate contains a statement that the qualification is equivalent to Cambridge IGCSE
  • • Level 2 certificate contains a statement that the qualification is equivalent to Cambridge International AS Level
  • • Level 3 certificate contains a statement that the qualification is equivalent to Cambridge International A Level
  • • Purposes: for learners to access future stages of education; to provide a measure of school performance; to provide a measure of teacher performance; to monitor teaching and learning