Fate of IIT-JEE candidates uncertain
Over a dozen successful IIT-JEE candidates and their parents in Patna are spending sleepless nights these days. Reason: Despite having achieved their lifes dream of cracking the IIT-JEE, their success threatens to fade away as the CBSE has withheld their plus 2 results.
Joy has given way to despair. Please help us. Without the marksheet, our sons will not be considered for admission, said A B Prasad, father of Rahul Anand who ranks 1,818 in the list of successful candidates in the IIT-JEE list. Anands counselling is scheduled to take place on June 20 in Mumbai.
Rahul and several others prepared for their IIT-JEE in Kota, Rajasthan, at different coaching institutes and got enrolled for their plus 2 in Central Academy located in Dada Lane there. Around 1,500 students have appeared for their CBSE plus 2 exams and around 100 are estimated to have cleared IIT-JEE. We were shocked to know that the result of the entire school has been withheld, said Mrinal Kumar Sharma, a bank official whose son Ravi Prakash is ranked 227th in the list of successful candidates for IIT. Prakash has been called to Mumbai on June 19 for counselling.
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CBSE helpline flooded on day 1
THE day after the CBSE Class XII results were announced, the CBSE helpline in the city was flooded with queries from students.
Not only the Class XII students whose results were announced on Friday, but also the students of Class X who are expecting their result on Tuesday, kept on calling for result related queries.
Talking to the Newsline, Madhu Bhel, principal of KBDAV School, Sector 7, who also heads the CBSE helpline in the city said, The time for the students to call on the helpline was from 8 am to 2 pm, however, the students kept on calling even after that. There were calls full of anxiety from Class X students who are awaiting their results. While the Class XII students had queries regarding their career and also included the calls of a few students who felt demotivated after the announcement of the results.
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Board exams: Girls top again
Of the 1,694 students who have achieved more than 90% marks in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination for class XII, 954 are girls. Similarly, in the senior secondary exams conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), girls have secured 3% higher pass percentages than boys.
In Delhi, the CBSE results show pass percentages of 85.88% and 78.28% for boys and girls respectively. The list of achievers in the Capital also shows that girls have topped across the three disciplines – Radhika Bansal, Delhi Public School, R K Puram, secured 97.5% in commerce, Avantika Lal, Modern School, Barakhamba Road secured 98.5% in science, and Neha Grover, St Thomas School, Mandir Marg, secured 92.8% in humanities.
Delhis pass percentages in the CISCE results are much higher — 98.24% for girls and 95.95% for boys. Says Gerry Arathoon, additional secretary, CISCE: Girls have done better than boys in terms of pass percentage. This is the best result we have ever got in CISCE examinations. The pass percentage in Delhi is 100%. A girl from Kolkata topped the CISCE list with 98.75%, while Mayank Aggarwal, a commerce student, topped the CBSE list with 98.4%.
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Good show by CBSE and ICSE students in city
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Schools in the city have posted good results in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE) and Indian School Certificate (ISC) examinations. The results were declared over Tuesday and Wednesday.
Christ Nagar Senior Secondary School, Thiruvallom, registered 100 per cent pass in the CBSE class 12 examinations. Of the 79 students who appeared for the examinations from the school, 46 passed with distinction, while the remaining secured first class. J. Anand Kumar came top in the school scoring 93 per cent marks. Reshmi Narayanan Raju came second with 92 per cent.
The 188 students who appeared for the examinations from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Senior Secondary School, Kodunganoor, passed, 69 of them with distinction and 83 with first class. In the biology group, Kaushik Rajagopal came on top, scoring 95.8 per cent, while Sneha Sangeevani and Nandita Nair topped computer science and commerce groups, scoring 94.2 per cent each.
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DU admission help by MIC
In order to help admission seekers from Manipur for their admission to various under-graduate courses in the University of Delhi for the academic session 2007-07, an Admission Facilitation Centre has been set up at the Manipur Information Centre, New Delhi from today.
Any kind of information regarding admission can be available at Telephone No.(011)-23746359 office hours.
As per information announced by Delhi University yesterday, the Admission Form will be issued from June 1-15, 2007, said MIC in a statement.
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DESAM reaffirms stand on textbook
Reaffirming its commitment in preserving identity, history and geo-political aspect of Manipur through the education system, the Democratic Students Alliance of Manipur (Desam) has asked heads of CBSE-affiliated educational institutions in the state to ensure inclusion of Board of Secondary Education Manipur (BSEM) prescribed social science text books from the current academic session without fail.
Strongly cautioning these institutions to honour its genuine proposal, the student body asserted it would not tolerate any form of defiance on the matter under any circumstances while informing that inspections would be conducted from May 21 onwards to assess whether these CBSE schools have included the said curriculum.
Speculating that there might be criticism to the DESAM insistence, a release of the student organisation issued by its publicity and propaganda secretary opined that only those individuals who have little respect for the culture and tradition of of the native land or ignorant of inevitability to restore the rich heritage of manipur would harbour concept against future vision of DESAM.
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Indias school girls: Our unlamented children
The ISC/ICSE examination results once again show that girls have done better than boys. Despite battling limitations on innumerable fronts, how girls manage to excel in the board examinations year after year remains a mystery.
THE ISC/ICSE examination results have been just announced and the results show that girls have done much better than the boys. In a month or so, the CBSE results will be declared and the likelihood is that the same trends will be observed there too. At least, such has been the case for the last many years that I have been tracking them.
This is an interesting social phenomenon for every one in India knows that boys are in general the privileged class and gender. Girls are unlikely to be getting special opportunities in terms of coaching, tuitions and personalized attention at the cost of their male siblings. On the contrary, in most homes, grown up girls of the age that appear in class X and XII examinations are typically expected to help out with domestic chores in the home and studies are something they would need to make time for after fulfilling these duties.
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Gunguly says 30,000 Japanese language students target by 2010
India will meet its target of 30,000 Japanese language students by 2010, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Chairman Ashok Ganguly said today.
While addressing the second All India conference on promotion of Japanese language education here Mr Ganguly said, We are introducing Japanese language as an optional foreign language
In the provisional results of the 2006 survey, it was discovered that there were 1,041 learners in primary and secondary-level school education, 1,444 in formal higher education
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She made junk worthwhile
Learning mathematical calculations from a kabariwali (junk seller) may seem like an anachronism. But hard work, determination and courage along with an inborn talent can catapult even a junk seller to a mathematics textbook. Thats the story of Kiran Devi.
Maths-Magic, published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training for CBSE students of Class IV, has a chapter on Kiran called The Junk Seller. Carried in interview format, it talks about her tough and unprivileged childhood and also has mathematical calculation based on her daily expenditures and investments. The lesson not only makes boring math problems interesting but also shows how will power can help overcome the biggest hurdles in life, as Kiran has proved.
Kiran is one of three women entrepreneurs selected for the new interactive NCERT textbook released this year during the second phase of restructuring of the Class IV, X and XII syllabi. The other two are Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, chairman and managing director of Biocon Ltd, and the women who run the Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad.
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CBSE provides relaxation to Physically Challenged students
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has informed that it has already provided certain relaxation and concession to physically challenged students, namely, exemption to appear in third language in the case of dyslexic, blind students and those suffering from speech/hearing defects; physiotherapy exercises in place of physical and health education courses of the Board in class-X and XII; option of studying one compulsory language as against two language in class-X.
Following concessions have also been provided for Board examination:-
(i) Alternative questions in lieu of the questions having visual input are provided in Mathematics, Science and Technology, Social Science, and English communicative paper for class-X level.
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Lok Sabha
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has informed that it has already provided certain relaxation and concession to physically challenged students, namely, exemption to appear in third language in the case of dyslexic, blind students and those suffering from speech/hearing defects; physiotherapy exercises in place of physical and health education courses of the Board in class-X and XII; option of studying one compulsory language as against two language in class-X.
Following concessions have also been provided for Board examination:-
Alternative questions in lieu of the questions having visual input are provided in Mathematics, Science and Technology, Social Science, and English communicative paper for class-X level.
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DU forms to be simpler this year
Delhi Universitys (DU) common pre-admission form would be simpler this year. The admission form would be a single sheet document which will be based on the Optical Mark Reader (OMR) technology.
The students would just have to darken the required circles with a pencil or in blank ink, which will be taken up by the computer.
The form which can be marked on both the sides, would ask students to fill in details such as name, date of birth, class XII examination roll number, result, year in which school was completed, the subjects that the student has opted and marks obtained.
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Students score less in CBSE Physics paper this year
A study conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has revealed that students of class XII face difficulties in answering questions related to electromagnetic induction and alternating currents, principles of communication, atomic nucleus and physical optics.
The study was based on the performance analysis of class XII students in the Physics paper of Delhi and other regions. Students have not been able to secure good marks in the aforesaid topics.
A CBSE official said that, “The objective of the study is to improve the quality of teaching by identifying common mistakes and nature of mistakes committed by a majority of students and highlighting possible shortcomings in curriculum transactions.�
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CBSE’s E-kit to help students learn Economics
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has developed an e-kit in an attempt to make economics interesting for higher secondary students.
The kit includes some of the extracts from the autobiography of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
A CBSE official said that, learning the subject remains incomplete without knowing about him (Amartya Sen). There is a separate window through which students will know about his childhood, his days in Presidency College (Kolkata), his stint in Cambridge, his experience as a professor in Delhi School of Economics (DSE) from 1963 to 1971 and his career move from Delhi to London and Oxford. His words on the connection of philosophy and economics have been featured as well. These are the basic areas in which students should have some awareness.
The e-kit is available on the CBSE website, and it also features Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs vision towards economics.
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Sops fail to pacify schools – State adopts softer line on control of private institutions
The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government has softened its stand in the face-off with Christian missionary schools and Anglo-Indian institutions, but the move has yielded little.
After proposing to bring the minority institutions under the purview of a new legislation drawn up to exercise more control over all categories of aided and unaided private schools the government has sweetened the pill by offering a set of sops.
All private schools, including the minority institutions, will be included in the new legislation, which has been formulated to ensure better and smoother functioning of these institutions. But the schools having valid minority status certificates from the Centre will be offered certain relaxations, said S. Mahapatra, joint secretary, school education department.
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Students score less in CBSE Physics paper this year
A study conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has revealed that students of class XII face difficulties in answering questions related to electromagnetic induction and alternating currents, principles of communication, atomic nucleus and physical optics.
The study was based on the performance analysis of class XII students in the Physics paper of Delhi and other regions. Students have not been able to secure good marks in the aforesaid topics.
A CBSE official said that, The objective of the study is to improve the quality of teaching by identifying common mistakes and nature of mistakes committed by a majority of students and highlighting possible shortcomings in curriculum transactions.
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CBSE axe on unlisted schools
The future of hundreds of students lies in darkness as Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to tighten the noose on all schools that do not have proper affiliation from the board.
Perturbed by the rampant mushrooming of private schools across the country, the board has sent out a letter to all regional offices in which Vineet Joshi, secretary of the board has asked all CBSE school coordinators to furnish relevant information of all the CBSE-affiliated schools in their respective areas.
According to the circular, the board has published a comprehensive list of affiliated schools on its official website, www.cbse.nic.in. Any school not mentioned in the list would be considered unlisted by the board.
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CBSE’s E-kit to help students learn Economics
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has developed an e-kit in an attempt to make economics interesting for higher secondary students. The kit includes some of the extracts from the autobiography of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
A CBSE official said that, learning the subject remains incomplete without knowing about him (Amartya Sen). There is a separate window through which students will know about his childhood, his days in Presidency College (Kolkata), his stint in Cambridge, his experience as a professor in Delhi School of Economics (DSE) from 1963 to 1971 and his career move from Delhi to London and Oxford. His words on the connection of philosophy and economics have been featured as well. These are the basic areas in which students should
have some awareness.
The e-kit is available on the CBSE website, and it also features Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs vision towards economics.
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Taqwa International School opens in Riyadh
Primarily catering to the Indian community, the school aims at educating, nurturing and developing children into wholesome personalities. With that small event in the evening of Wednesday 25 April, the school started functioning in the following week.
Our goal is to address both sides of child development, career and character explained M H Zulqarnain, Chairman, Board of Governors, adding that education according to the school philosophy is not limited to excellence in literacy and numeracy, but is also very much concerned with character development. Thats why every school includes this among its prime objectives. How much of this is really achieved is a different story. TIS intends to take this a bit more seriously.
There is a high demand among the expatriate community for quality education. Indians comprising the largest chunk of non-Arab expatriates are looking for the best among various alternatives available for their children. We want to be in the forefront to fulfil this demand, said Khalid Abdullah Al Rajhi, Director General of the school.
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Patriotism class in Manipur- Plea to CBSE schools to follow states social science syllabus
An influential students organisation of Manipur thinks that students studying in schools affiliated to the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) are less patriotic than those under the state board.
Democratic Students Association of Manipur has urged all schools in the state under the CBSE to teach social science to students of Classes VI to IX from textbooks prescribed by the Board of Secondary Education Manipur (BSEM), instead of the ones suggested by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
The schools under the CBSE should start teaching from local textbooks from this academic session, L.C. Santosh, secretary of the students association announced today.
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