Commissioner of School Examination Evaluation Pushpa Wijesooriya told The Morning on Tuesday (5) that all information of a student – including their examination results and other marks, progress evaluations, co-curricular activities, and any medical conditions – would be included in the profile, staring from their entry to school. She added that a unique student identity number will be issued to each student that could be used as a registration number for the Grade Five Scholarship examination as well as the GCE Ordinary Level (O/L) and Advanced Level (A/L) examinations. “In the existing system, students are given different index numbers for each of these exams. Having a common number for everything would be convenient for students,” Wijesooriya pointed out. A shift to an online system is expected to result in the centralisation of all student information from these varied sources.

Source: The Nation January 06, 2021 21:56 UTC