Record a belt grading

Create the exam session

1. In Sessions, create a new session and pick the "Grading" type (offered for karate, judo and the other martial arts).
2. Invite the candidates like any other session: the attendance list becomes the candidate list.
3. Open the session on exam day: the "Grading" button leads to the exam screen.

The exam sheet

• Ready-to-fill columns: name, member number, target grade, exam number, then the criteria scored by hand during the exam.
• Your criteria, your scale: replace the suggested criteria (Concentration, Technique, Kata, Kumite, Condition, out of 10) with your club's own, at any maximum score (/10, /20, /100…), and save them as your club template.
• One-click print: the sheet prints blank, to be filled at the edge of the tatami. This part is available on every plan, including the free one.

Exam mode (live scoring): Paak One

• Score on a tablet instead of paper: open exam mode from the grading screen: one mark field per criterion per candidate, totals add up by themselves (half-points accepted).
• The scale is locked: opening exam mode freezes the criteria for this session: they cannot change mid-exam. The club template stays editable for future gradings.
• Marks join the history: on save, the per-criterion marks and the total are kept with each grading.
• Exam mode is included from Paak One, like the automatic belt update; the printable paper sheet stays available on every plan.

Record the results

1. Each candidate is pre-filled to the next grade after their current belt; you only adjust the exceptions: double promotion, not passed.
2. Enter the examiner, tick or untick "Passed", add a note if needed.
3. Click "Save results": every successful candidate's belt updates at once, no opening 25 profiles one by one. This automatic update is included from Paak One.

Grade history

• Every grading joins the member's record: previous grade, grade obtained, date, examiner, exam number.
• A candidate who did not pass keeps the trace of the attempt, like a real grade booklet.
• Already-recorded history stays visible on every plan.
• Each grading also keeps who awarded the grade (your teachers, a regional jury, the federation…) as it stood when it was recorded: if the list changes later, the history stays true.

Your club's grade list

• Your country's progression, ready to use: Paak offers the grade list of your discipline published by the body in your country, and says who defines it. Where no body publishes a single list, Paak says so and offers a neutral reference list.
• Who awards each grade: in Settings › Grades and levels, every grade shows how many members hold it and, when an official source states it, who awards it (your teachers, an accredited examiner, a regional jury or the body itself).
• Your club follows another progression? Click "Adapt for our club": rename, add and reorder grades, and say who defines the list (your club or another organisation, such as your style's school). It is free on every plan.
• Nothing is lost: the official list stays available, and an "Official / Our own" switch takes you back. If you remove a grade that members hold, Paak asks where they go, or keeps it as a past grade.
• Paak records your club's grades; it does not homologate them and does not replace your federation.

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