Track Your Semester
Your IA marks per subject, totalled as you enter them.
Every subject has three internal assessments, and the final internal mark is the average of your best two. The weakest attempt is dropped — which means the third IA is not a chance to fall further behind. It is a chance to replace your worst score, and it is worth sitting properly for that reason alone.
The calculator applies that rule as you type. Enter IA-1 and IA-2 and you get a running average of the two. Enter IA-3 and the weakest of the three is struck out and the average recomputes from the two that remain.
This sounds like a small detail until it is wrong. If a subject showed a zero for IA-3 before you had written it, your internal marks would appear to collapse halfway through the semester for no reason — and a student half-way through their internals would be looking at a number that is not just pessimistic but meaningless.
Unentered exams stay blank. The average only ever considers exams you have actually entered, so what you see is always a real average of real scores.
Until all three internals are in, the number on screen is a running average — useful, but not final. Once the third score is entered, it becomes your internal mark for that subject, because no later exam can change it.
That is also when the app shows you which attempt was dropped. Before all three are in it cannot say, since a score you have not written yet might displace a different one. Showing a dropped mark early would mean showing one that later changes.
Internal marks are usually the part of your final grade you can still influence. Seeing the average per subject — and which subject is dragging — is the difference between finding out in the last week and finding out in time to do something about it.
Internals are entered and stored on your phone, like the rest of your study data.
Record each internal assessment as you get it back and see the running total for every subject, so you know where you stand long before the results are announced.
From the blog
VTU's grace marks policy is real, dated 25 May 2017, and almost nothing students repeat about it is accurate. Here is what the notification actually says.
Three internals are conducted and two of them count. Here is how the best two are picked, how the average is taken, and why the third is not wasted.
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