# What is an academic transcript?

> An academic transcript is an official record of a student's courses, results and grades. Here's what it includes and how schools produce them without errors.

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An academic transcript is an official record of a student's courses or subjects, their results and grades, and often their attendance and standing, issued by a school, university or exam body.

- Page: https://sparkmentis.ai/learn/academic-transcript

## What it includes

- Student and institution details
- Each course or subject, with term or year
- Marks or grades, and any credits
- Overall result, rank or class where used
- Clear notes for absent, excused or withheld results

## Getting it right

Errors come from copying marks between systems. Generating transcripts from the same released marks used everywhere else removes that step.

## Questions

**Transcript vs report card?**

A report card covers one term; a transcript covers the whole record.

**How should absences show?**

As words (absent, excused), never as zero.

## Related

- [SparK-12: Transcripts and result sheets](https://app.sparkmentis.ai/features/transcripts-result-sheets): Print-ready results, term reports, backlogs
- [Results and transcripts](https://sparkmentis.ai/features/exam-results-transcripts.md): SparkExam

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