ABSTRACT
The record of personal achievement is seen as being more detailed, more specific and more wide-ranging than the record of scholastic attainment provided by subject-based examinations. The record of personal achievement could include examination results, but they normally consist of a single grade awarded at the end of a course of study and often at the end of formal education itself. The making of finer divisions within subjects is certainly possible and has been practised both in teaching and examining. Heat, light and electricity have long been familiar divisions in physics; reading, writing, speaking and listening in second languages; language and literature in first languages; and physical, organic and inorganic chemistry. The award and publication of grades in profile form for parts of examination subjects would involve the examination boards in greatly increased work in designing and constructing examinations and at the awarding meetings and in processing results.
