The Official Mark Calculator determines an Achievement Date and Achievement School Year. The Achievement School Year is always the School Year from the same course mark record as the Achievement Date. The values are stored on an Official Mark record for a single course.

Achievement Date and Achivement School Year values are inputs for Dual Credit eligibility calculations.

The Achivement Date assigned to an Official Mark record is the earliest date a student 'achieves' a passing mark in a course. Official Mark Calculator rules for determining a passing mark in a course are leveraged to calculate and store the date associated to the first of such achievements.

The inherent goal of the calculator is to create the record with the highest possible mark value/credit for a student. Determining an achievement date is a matter of leveraging the calculator's rules to determine the first time it would calculate any Official Mark that would make the student eligible to receive credits in the same course. This can also be expressed as the first time a student can have an available official mark that is also passing.

First pass calculator rules aim to organize source mark records into their respective mark sets where calculation method specific rules are applied to them. These rules have a general goal of creating a potential Official Mark record with the highest possible mark value/credits. The rules are also applied to determine the earliest potential passing Official Mark record.

The output of this step is a first pass Official Mark with the highest credit and mark value possible as well as the the date that represents the first achievement in the same course.

The rule for determining an achievement date is specific to the calculation method:

For all credit awarding Regular available Official Marks, the Achievement date is sourced from the earliest passing evaluated mark or course enrollment mark for the student. The Achievement School Year comes from the same mark record.

The Achievement date is 2013-12-30 as it represents the first time the student achieved a passing mark in the course. The Course Enrolment (75%) will be selected as for its mark value (highest mark) and credits.

The Achievement date is 2013-12-30 as it represents the first time the student achieved a passing mark in the course. It will be selected as for its mark value (highest mark) and credits.

For all credit awarding Accumulated available Official Marks, the Achievement date is sourced from the earliest passing evaluated mark or course enrollment mark for the student. The Achievement School Year comes from the same mark record.

The Achievement date is 1999-02-30 as it represents the first time the student achieved a passing mark in the course. It will be selected as for its mark value (highest mark) and credits.

The Achievement date is 2013-12-30 as it represents the first time the student achieved a passing mark in the course. It will be selected as for its mark value (highest mark) and credits.

For all credit awarding Accumulated available:

• If the Achievement date is from a single Diploma Exam Mark (e.g. a mature student passing a Diploma Exam is when the course is first achieved), then the Achievement date is the Exam Component Scheduled Date/Time of the last written Exam Component of the earliest passing exam mark.

• If the calculated Official Mark value is a blended mark (i.e. there is a Course Enrolment record and a Diploma Exam Mark record that both contribute to the earliest Achievement) then the Achievement date will be the later of the:
  • Course Enrolment Exit Date, and
  • The Exam Component Scheduled Date/Time of the last written exam component of the earliest passing Exam Mark.

Note: Rounding will be considered when looking for the earliest passing marks for diploma courses (i.e. 47.5% will be considered an achievement)

The first possible achievement of the course is when the Diploma Exam Mark (50%) is blended with the second course enrolment (60%). The later of the two dates is 2015-12-30, which is the calculated Achivement date.

The student first achieves course when the Course Enrolment (33%) blends with the second Diploma Exam Mark (75%) (60%). The later of the two dates is 2015-12-30, which is the calculated Achivement date.

The student first achieves course when he receives the Diploma Exam Exemption (50%) and as such achieves the course on 2014-12-30.

See Calculating Official Marks for GED Courses for details.

When picking the desired template (outcome) it is possible that a single course code might have multiple potential first pass official marks that belong to different calculation methods. For purposes of selecting an Official Mark the unique course filter code picks the highest mark adds an additional check to take a potential diploma outcome as a tie breaker. This filter however ensures that the Achievement date is a product of the first achievement for the course regardless of its calculation method.

When a student fails to satisfy the course prerequisites prior to the calculated achievement date, but the prerequisites have been satisfied after the calculated achievement date, the achievement date of the course will be adjusted to match the greatest achievement date from the prerequisites.

If a student passed English Language Arts 30-1 on 2012-01-19, but didn't pass English Language Arts 20-1 until 2012-06-28, PASI will calculated the Achievement Date for both courses as 2012-06-28.