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Assessment is an integral component of learning and teaching. The main purpose of this study was to examine the current assessment practices of teachers and as well as examination system in the Beaconhouse school system. Six schools of Beacon house system of Lahore, Faisalabad and Islamabad cities and their male and female teachers were the population of the study. Fifty teachers were selected as a sample on convenient basis. Data were collected through developing a questionnaire to ask teachers report on their assessment practices. It contained 30 items, each at the 5 point Likert type scale ranging from ‘always’ to ‘never’. The means and standard deviations were calculated for each item to find out the assessment practices being used in Beacon house Schools. The findings of the study revealed that Beacon house school teachers are informed about their use of assessment practices to examine learners’ reading performance. The teachers always inform results to the students but keep confidential from the irrelevant- stakeholders. They do not interpret percentile bands to students and parents and they do not consider students’ participation behavior or attitude in the promotion of next class. Uzma Perveen is currently working as a Senior Research Officer in National Accreditation Council for Teacher Education Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan Dr. Muhammad Saeed is working as Associate Professor and Chairman at the Department of Educational Research, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. He has widely published research in the field of science curriculum, teacher education, and educational assessment.