SBIPA — Report Terms & Disclaimer
This page explains what an SBIPA report is, how it is produced, and what parents, students, and counsellors should understand before reading one.
SBIPA is a product of More Than Marks. This page is one document within the More Than Marks Policies, which covers governance, security, AI transparency, privacy, and contractual documentation across all More Than Marks products.
Purpose
This document sets out the terms and disclaimers that apply to every SBIPA report. It exists to give parents, students, and school counsellors a clear, plain-language understanding of what an SBIPA report is, how it is produced, and where responsibility sits between the student, the family, the school, and SBIPA.It forms part of the More Than Marks and SBIPA governance framework, sitting alongside the organization's policies on data protection, AI governance, and appeals. Together, these documents describe how SBIPA operates responsibly and transparently for schools, families, and students.
What this document covers:
- How a report is produced, including the separation between rules-based scoring and AI-assisted narrative
- The safeguards in place to reduce the risk of AI error
- How responsibility is divided between students, parents, teachers, schools, and SBIPA
- How student data is handled under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
- How age-appropriate, non-clinical design is applied to sensitive findings
- How to raise an appeal, correction, or question about a report
- Links to the related governance documents that this policy sits alongside
Who should read this
This document is written primarily for:
- Parents and guardians
- Students
- School counsellors
It is also relevant to school leaders, school IT and compliance teams, and education partners who need to understand how SBIPA reports are produced and what assurances apply to them, as well as to internal More Than Marks governance teams responsible for maintaining this policy.
Key highlights
- SBIPA is a developmental guidance tool — not a career prediction system, personality test, clinical or psychological assessment, or measure of intelligence or fixed potential.
- Scoring and narrative are strictly separated. Scores are produced by a fixed, rules-based system with no AI or human judgment involved. Only after scoring is complete does an AI-assisted system translate the results into plain language.
- The AI cannot invent facts. It is not permitted to calculate a score, decide a readiness level, or state anything about a student that is not already present in the calculated results.
- Every report is human-reviewed. A trained reviewer checks each report against writing standards before it reaches a family, and school counsellors — not the AI — discuss findings with families.
- Full traceability. Every part of a report can be traced back to the data that produced it.
- Consent-driven data handling. Student data is processed under India's DPDP Act, 2023, requiring verifiable parental or guardian consent before processing.
- No clinical determinations. Where a report flags something that may warrant further attention, it is surfaced as a prompt for the counsellor — not a diagnosis.
- A clear appeals path exists for factual errors, data-entry mistakes, or misrepresentations, handled under the Appeal, Evidence Management & Governance Policy
About this document
This page explains what an SBIPA report is, how it is created, and what parents, students, and counsellors should understand before reading one. It appears at the back of every SBIPA report and in shorter form in the report footer.
This is a plain-language summary, not a legal contract. Your school's agreement with SBIPA sets out the full terms. If anything in this summary conflicts with that agreement, the agreement governs.
What SBIPA is — and is not
SBIPA (Student Behaviour, Interest & Potential Assessment) is a developmental guidance tool. It helps a student, their parents, and their school counsellor understand patterns in interests, effort, and self-perception at a point in time.
SBIPA is not:
- a career prediction system, or a claim about what a student will or should become;
- a personality test;
- a psychological, psychiatric, or clinical assessment or diagnosis;
- a measure of intelligence, worth, or fixed potential;
- a substitute for professional counselling, medical advice, or special-education evaluation.
Interests, effort, and self-perception change — often quickly — during childhood and adolescence. A report is one data point in an ongoing conversation, not a verdict.
How a Report Is Created
Every SBIPA report is built in two clearly separated steps.
Step 1 — Scoring. A fixed, rules-based system turns your child's questionnaire answers into scores and patterns. This step involves no artificial intelligence and no human judgment. The same answers always produce the same numbers, and the calculation can be independently checked at any time.
Step 2 — Narrative. An AI-assisted system takes those already-calculated numbers and writes them up in plain language. The AI does not calculate anything, does not decide anything, and does not add facts that are not already in the calculated results. A trained reviewer checks each report against our writing standards before it reaches a family.
You may see a Response Consistency note in your child's report. This reflects how consistently your child answered related questions — it is not a judgement of your child. It is separate from the formal scientific evidence about the assessment itself, which is documented in our AI Governance & Psychometric Documentation Policy (Doc 04) and grows as more students complete the assessment.
How We Reduce AI Error
A known risk with AI-generated text is that it can state something confidently that isn't true. SBIPA is built specifically to reduce this risk where it matters most:
- All scores are calculated by fixed rules, not by AI. No generative AI model is involved in producing a score, a ranking, or a readiness level.
- The AI's role is limited to narration. It is not permitted to invent a score, invent a readiness level, or state anything about your child that isn't already present in the calculated results.
- Every part of the report can be traced back to the data that produced it.
- A trained human reviews each report against our writing standards before it is released to a family. School counsellors — not the AI — are the ones who discuss findings with families.
- The report is guidance, not a determination. Strengths, gaps, or possible next steps are framed as starting points for discussion, not facts about your child's fixed potential or future.
If anything in a report seems inconsistent with what you know about your child, we want to hear about it — see Section 7.
Who Is Responsible for What
The student, parent, and teacher are responsible for the honesty and care of their own questionnaire responses. SBIPA does not verify the truthfulness of self-reported or observer-reported answers.
A student who joins SBIPA independently (not through their school) is responsible for entering an email address that genuinely belongs to their parent or legal guardian, and confirms this before their assessment is processed. The completed report is sent only to that same address.
SBIPA's scoring system turns raw questionnaire answers into scores and patterns using a fixed, published method, with no AI and no human judgment involved.
SBIPA's AI narrative system translates already-calculated results into plain language. It does not calculate scores, does not decide readiness levels, and does not introduce facts not present in the underlying data.
The school administers the assessment, obtains and records parental consent, and decides how the report is used in counselling conversations. The school controls who at the school can access a given student's report.
The counsellor or teacher discussing the report with a family is responsible for how it is contextualised and communicated — SBIPA provides the document, not the conversation.
Parents and students decide how to act on the report's contents. Nothing in a report is an instruction; roadmap and guidance sections are starting points for discussion.
SBIPA is not liable for decisions made solely on the basis of a report — including subject choices, stream selection, or extracurricular commitments — without independent judgment from the family, school, or a qualified professional where appropriate.
Data & Privacy
Your child's data is processed under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDP Act"), which requires verifiable parental or guardian consent before any personal data belonging to a child is processed.
In most school deployments, the school is the Data Fiduciary and SBIPA acts as its Data Processor, processing student data only to generate this report and support the school's counselling process. The specific allocation agreed with your school is set out in SBIPA's agreement with the school.
SBIPA may also use data that has been anonymised and combined across many students — in a form that cannot identify any individual child — to improve the assessment and support research, unless your school has instructed SBIPA otherwise. This never involves identifying you, your child, or your school in anything published.
How your consent was captured depends on how you joined SBIPA. If your school enrolled your child, your school's own consent process applies. If SBIPA contacted you directly, your consent was recorded through that outreach. If your child found SBIPA independently, no data is processed, scored, or included in any report until a parent or guardian verifies their email and affirmatively consents — an unverified submission is automatically deleted within 7 days.
SBIPA does not use a student's data for advertising or behavioural targeting. Data is retained only as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected, consistent with your school's retention schedule. Full detail is in our Security & Data Protection Policy (Doc 03).
Parents (or the adult student, once 18) may request access to, correction of, or erasure of the underlying data through the school or directly through SBIPA — see Section 7.
Age-Appropriate & Non-Clinical Design
Where a report flags something that may warrant attention beyond what a school counsellor typically provides — for example, a pattern suggestive of emotional distress — SBIPA surfaces this as a prompt for the counsellor to follow up sensitively. SBIPA does not make clinical determinations, and any such flag is not a diagnosis.
Appeals, Corrections & Questions
If a parent, student, or counsellor believes a report contains a factual error, a data-entry mistake, or a misrepresentation of a response, you may request review and correction. Raise it with your school counsellor, or directly with SBIPA at the contact point provided by your school. We will investigate against the underlying data and respond within the timeline set out in our Appeal, Evidence Management & Governance Policy (Doc 05).
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