Abacus Certification Examination
ACE
ACE by Cognito Abacus is an assessment platform designed to evaluate the students and educators of Cognito Abacus on a common national benchmark under supervised and expert evaluation. ACE is not a competition where one student or educator competes with other students or educators, rather an examination, where they compete with themselves and set a yardstick for their own growth.
Objectives of ACE
The ACE aims in its efforts:
- To assess the students and educators of Cognito Abacus on a common national benchmark.
- To conduct supervised evaluation under experts from or assigned by National Office.
- To evaluate students and educators on the grounds of Conceptual Proficiency, Speed and Accuracy.
- To certify one’s capability in Abacus or Mental Arithmetic.
Eligibility
- The exam is open to Only Active / On Hold students and active Educators of Cognito Abacus registered on CACTAS.
- The students who have already Graduated or Passed out can participate within 12 months of their completion of 9th Level or the next ACE exam held after the passing date.
Examination Structure
- There are a total of 10 Milestone Exams corresponding to 10 levels of Cognito Abacus.
- Each milestone will evaluate proficiency corresponding to concepts covered in syllabus of Cognito Abacus.
- Students/educators can appear for multiple milestone exams each year.
- Students/educators can repeat a milestone exam in subsequent years to better his/her performance.
- Students/educators can appear for the milestone exams corresponding to the current or lower level he or she is studying in or has completed training in case of educators.
- The Mode of paper can be Abacus or Mental for students and Abacus Only for educators.
- As the milestone increases, the difficulty of the paper increases and average time available to solve a question is reduced. Therefore, to be proficient in higher milestone, the students must attempt more and more questions mentally. The educators must practice and become more adroit to be able to completely solve the paper.
- ACE is currently available in offline mode only. However, in exceptional circumstances, the same can be conducted on Microsoft Forms under camera on MS Teams.
Milestone Selector
Judging
- Based on the marks achieved in every section of a milestone paper, the child will be awarded following recognitions in every section:
- Proficient
- Merit
- Pass
- Fail
- In case there are multiple sections in a milestone exam, the lowest of all the sections shall be treated as the Overall Result of Milestone Exam.
Prizes
- All Participating students will get following prizes or recognitions
- Proficient: Certificate with Gold Medal
- Merit: Certificate
- Pass: Certificate
- Children getting PROFICIENT in all 10 Milestone Exams (First attempt only) will get a beautiful trophy and a scholarship of ₹5100/- on completion of the Cognito Abacus program.