Formative Assessment is a tool used by the teacher to continuously monitor student progress in a non threatening, supportive environment.
It involves regular descriptive feedback, a chance for the student to reflect on the performance, take advice and improve upon it. It involves the students’ being an essential part of assessment from designing criteria to assessing self or peers.
Formative Assessment is carried out during a course of instruction for providing continuous feedback to both the teachers and the learners. It is also carried out for taking decisions regarding appropriate modifications in the transactional procedures and learning activities

Summative Assessment is carried out at the end of a course of learning. It measures or ‘sums-up’ how much a student has learned from the course. It is usually a graded test, i.e., it is marked according to a scale or set of grades. Assessment that is predominantly of summative nature will not by itself be able to yield a valid measure of the growth and development of the student. It, at best, certifies the level of achievement only at a given point of time. The paper pencil tests are basically a onetime mode of assessment and to exclusively rely on it to decide about the development of a student is not only unfair but also unscientific.

First Term: FA1 (10%) + FA2 (10%)+SA1(30%) = 50%
* Second Term: FA3 (10%) + FA4 (10%) + SA2 (30%) = 50%
Formative Assessment: FA1(10%)+FA2(10%)+FA3(10%)+FA4(10%)= 40%
Summative Assessment: SA1 (30%) +SA2 (30%) = 60%

Source : www.cbse.nic.in.

Learning in Scholastic and Co-Scholastic Areas is demonstrated by change of behaviour in the learner. Assessment of human behaviour is collecting repeated evidences (information), identifying the trend of behaviour, deriving conclusions or making judgments and providing feedback It may include the following steps:
1. Identifying qualities
2. Specifying behaviours/indicators of the concerned area/skill
3. Collection of evidence in respect of behaviour/indicators through observation and other techniques
4. Recording of the evidences
5. Analysis of the recorded evidences
6. Reporting or awarding grades
The analysis of records raised as a result of periodic observation is done to validate the attainment of the quality resulting in growth in the Co-Scholastic Areas. The grades and descriptive indicators are assigned on the basis of the degree of attainment of a particular skill/behavior outcome.

All assessment with regard to the academic status of the students shall be done in marks and the assessment will be given in grades. Co-Scholastic attainments will be done on 5 point Scale. It will be done once in a session.

Source : http://www.cbse.nic.in/publications/CCE_Manual_Class_VI_VII_2010.