If I had penny for every time I had to hear “You should know your strengths and weaknesses”, Trust me I’d be a billionaire. This is no news that tapping your strengths and working towards sharpening the skills for things that you are good at or interested in can take you a long way in your life. But the elephant in this room is how do we decide that we are so good at something and that we must pursue this? What can tell us that we are better than most of the students of the same age in this Subject. While local school assessments are somewhat useful, covering such large demographic is really not a test you should put on such exams. Plus, the medium of instructions, syllabi and methodology varies so much from region to region that accounting for such changes becomes necessary. A common paper won’t be smart choice to analyse the acumen of the examinee. So, it’s important to appear for exams which are taken by similar aged students all around the globe while catering to not only the content that one can remember from the topics but the skills that he/she should develop from this subject matter. Subject specific Olympiads organized by various organizations no doubt is a great way for a student to not only test his knowledge but also assess his overall skills required for the subject. But where they generally lack is how they try to assess through a common question paper. 

So, to curb that issue, tests like ICAS assessment comes to rescue. They provide you with a detailed diagnosis of the skills of your child possess required for a particular subject. Their exams are set according to predefined guidelines for specified regions and are then normalized to give you a more comprehensive, detailed and honest report. Regulating your child’s skills through this assessment can help him/her and yourself to choose a better career option. It also helps your child to be a part of healthy competition from very beginning and evaluate his strengths and weaknesses on evidential bases. It helps you to evaluate the quality of education that your ward’s school is capable of providing.  With passing time, many schools all over the globe are including such external assessments as a part of their academic programme to work towards producing students who are more aware of their capabilities and interests. The exam organized by the UNSW Global, Australia houses great researchers, assessment experts and psychometricians, with rigorous reviews at each stage of construction. Subject matter experts develop new questions each year, drawing on their in-depth understanding of the way students learn. I have mentioned below the best practices to crack ICAS assessments globally.

How to pull off ICAS!

·         Building of a strong foundation on basics and dynamics in your core subjects from an early age will offer you a quick academic success. Will bring core competency and skill enhancements.

·         Seek professional assistance from teachers and experienced tutors once in a while to begin your preparations rightly for ICAS exams. 

·         Option for ICAS coaching as well for the selective and scholarship exams.

·         Religious and hands-on practice on mock tests will build your self-confidence and help you to recover from mistakes healthily.

Along with these highlighters, these are not only beneficial for students, it also helps teachers and syllabi coordinators to bring changes in their methodology and make it more advanced and streamlined. Teachers are also educated by the experts in  ICAS assessment evaluation publishing which provides this assessment service in collaboration with UNSW Global about the information and deductions that they can make based on the parameters evaluated in the ICAS assessment report. It helps them in honing their skills of assessment and provides them with better understanding of their student’s proficiencies. In all, this assessment can prove to be extremely cardinal in the decision of choosing academic future of your child.