If pupils or students undergo continuous assessment, they get qualifications partly or entirely based on the work they do during the year, rather than on exam results.
[British]
continuous assessment in British English
noun
the assessment of a pupil's progress throughout a course of study rather than exclusively by examination at the end of it
Examples of 'continuous assessment' in a sentence
continuous assessment
The GCSE courses she is following seem to demand one continuous assessment examination after another.