10 more countries: AbacusMaster’s impressive franchise expansion during pandemic

New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI/SRV): Wizycom AbacusMaster, with its unique activities and initiatives, is an exclusive abacus educational programme for aspiring young students. The programme aims to expand and enhance an individual’s cognitive functions such as memory, concentration and visualization.

AbacusMaster promotes a hybrid course of teaching with both offline and virtual abacus classes. Despite the pandemic, the company was able to expand into ten more countries. The teacher-led online abacus live training program became a massive global hit, with a quarter-million aspirants joining the extremely popular live training programme.

Around the world, the abacus has long been used in mathematics education. It teaches and aids the “right brain,” which is responsible for intuition, in performing rapid arithmetic calculations by training the eyes, head, and fingertips. The activity in the right-hand aids in the coordination of the activity in the left side of the brain, and vice versa. It has been shown to be one of the most effective methods of teaching young students mental math…Read More

Private school aspiration increasingly out of reach as inflation bites

Many private schools have raised fees and other charges by more than 15% this year, said Aparajita Gautam, president of the Delhi Parents Association

By Manoj KumarIndian financial consultant Waqar Khan has seen his income drop by about a fifth since the coronavirus pandemic began. When his younger son’s private school raised fees by 10% this year, he had no choice but to move him to the state system. With three children and living in a small house in the capital, New Delhi, the 45-year-old can no longer afford private school fees for his boy of 10. He moved his older boy into a state school in early in 2021.

“I had no option,” Khan told Reuters, adding that rising education costs had come on top of a nearly 25% increase in household expenses in the past two years. While inflation is putting the heaviest burden on the poorest, the relatively well-off are coming under the sort of pressure to make cuts in household budgets not seen in years. Khan is among millions of parents who have moved children from private to state education since 2020, or from elite schools to cheaper ones. In 2021, four million children switched from private to state, more than 4% of all children in school….

Is India running out of time to cash in on its booming young workforce?

India isn’t doing enough to revamp its education system to prepare the youth for better-paying, high-skilled jobs, going by a recent World Bank report

Economy News: India, which is home to more young people than any other country, is running out of time to harness the potential of its youth to drive economic growth. The nation’s population in the under-19 age group has already peaked, government data show. That means the labor force will grow more slowly from here on out. In just over 20 years, the South Asian nation will be an aging society, similar to where China is now, according to the Economic Survey published by the Finance Ministry earlier this month.

With those risks looming, India isn’t doing enough to revamp its education system to prepare the youth for better-paying, high-skilled jobs, going by a recent World Bank report. The world’s sixth-biggest economy, and until recently the fastest-growing major one, is ranked 115 out of 157 countries in the Human Capital Index, which measures the investment in education and health care for young people.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget this month allocated 3.4 per cent of total annual spending to the ministry in charge of education, little changed from the last few years and down from 3.8 per cent in 2015. The government’s own review of public schools says “it is common knowledge” that the country’s education system suffers from a shortage of teachers and staff, poor teacher training and delays in receiving funds.

 

Online NEET-UG unlikely in 2019; HRD Ministry to maintain status quo

The Health Ministry sent a letter to the MHRD within three days saying the announcement was made “without formal consultation” with them

Education news : The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET-UG, a qualifying test for admission in medical institutions, may not be conducted twice in 2019 as announced by HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar in July, according to reports.

Days after the announcement of newly formed National Testing Agency (NTA) who would conduct the national- level examinations — NET, NEET, JEE (Mains) — that were organised by the CBSE, Health Ministry wrote a letter to HRD Ministry, asking them to continue with the offline examination or pen-paper mode in 2019 as well, a Times of India report said.

According to Javadekar in his July announcement, the tests would be computer-based. The exams would be held over a span of four-five days and students would have the option of choosing the dates, he said. The NEET-UG was scheduled for February 2019 with a repeat on May 2019.

The Health Ministry, according to Indian Express, sent a letter to the HRD Ministry within three days saying the announcement was made “without formal consultation” with them. The letter stated the computer-based test would put students from rural and economically poor families at a disadvantage.

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RRB Group C ALP & Technician exam 2018 begins today: All you need to know

The candidates can download the RRB ALP and Technician Admit Card and RRB Group D admit card (hall ticket) from the official website indiarail.gov.in.

The Railway Recruitment Board has activated links to download Group D Admit Card for RRB Assistant Loco Pilot (ALP) and Technician exam on Thursday, August 9. The exam is to be held on August 13, 2018. Earlier, the Board had released the calendar of issuing admit card for ALP and Technician exams, scheduled to be held from August 9 to 31, 2018. Meanwhile, around 4.7 million (47 lakh) railway job aspirants are participating in the first computer-based test today at various examination centres.

RRB Group C ALP & Technician exam 2018:

The candidates can download the RRB ALP and Technician Admit Card and RRB Group D admit card (hall ticket) from the official website indianrailways.gov.in. For direct link of respective zones click here

No call letters would be sent via e-mail. Candidates should, therefore, note that they must download these from the right website. Admission to the examination hall without the call letter/admit card/hall ticket is strictly prohibited.

Here’s how to download the RRB ALP admit card 2018:

Step 1: Candidates can go to the official website of the RRB zone for which he/she made the application, or visit indianrailways.gov.in

Step 2: Click on the recruitment tab available on indianrailways.gov.in

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Each JEE, NEET examinee may get a unique question paper from next year

Starting from 2019, the National Testing Agency mandates competitive exams to be computerised

Soon after the human resource development ministry announced the handing over of competitive exams like JEE, NEET to the National Testing Agency (NTA), a new set of rules have been prepared and are ready to roll from next year. The NTA now mandates competitive exams to be all computerised, meaning which, the examinations will rely heavily on technological tools like Artificial Intelligence, Psychometric analysis and Computer-based adaptive testing.

With this, each candidate will now get a unique set of questions, with the software picking questions randomly for candidates.

In a statement, Vineet Joshi, director general of NTA, said: “The test will be 100 per cent safe… The highest level of encryption will be used so that no one can hack into the system,” the Times of India reported.

The changes to the examination pattern include distracting candidates with multiple choice questions to fox them. “And with millions of questions (items) to be prepared instead of a couple of question papers for a particular test, you will be at the mercy of the software’s algorithm, which will pick up items at random for your test at a particular date, based on the set of difficulty-level,” an official was quoted as saying by the Times of India.

This move will help the NTA do things faster — from setting the questions to preparing the correct answers.

NTA is also undertaking psychometric analysis of previous years’ test. This is done to:

1) Test how well each question has fared so as to determine its level of difficulty.

2) To check if the distraction system (multiple choice for a question) applied to the candidates functioned well. This is primarily done so that the ones who know the subject are able to answer correctly.

3)To check how well the question paper has functioned and to see if these tests were reliable.(ARTICLE SOURCE : BS)

Bihar board 10th result 2018 to be out on biharboard.ac.in; know details

BSEB Class 10 result 2018 to be declared today on biharboard.ac.in. For updates, track Business Standard

 

BSEB Class 10 result 2018: Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) is likely to announce the Bihar Class 10 Matric Result 2018 today on its official website biharboard.ac.in or biharboardonline.bihar.gov.in. Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) will announce the Bihar matric results at 4:30 pm on Tuesday (26 June 2018), reports Hindustan live.

Bihar board class 10th students will also be able to check their Matric results on third-party websites such as bihar.indiaresults.com and examresults.net. There has been speculation about the Bihar 10th result date since May, and the Bihar board has since released results for its 12th class exams, with only the Matric results remaining. Earlier, the Bihar Board Class 10th results was postponed from 20th June to 26th June, after a news surfaced that Class 10th answer sheets were missing in Gopalganj.

Today, the fate of nearly 1.77 million (17.7 lakh) students will be decided when BSEB will announce the Bihar Matric Result 2018 or Bihar board class 10th results. According to the tradition followed by the BSEB, the result will be announced by the State Education Minister and Board Chairman and then it will be uploaded online. This year, during intermediate (Class 12) result declaration, the result was published on the website three hours after it was declared by the State Education Minister. In such scenario, students must keep their patience and monitor the website at frequent intervals.

The Bihar board or BSEB conducted the class 10 matric examination from February 21 to 28 and around 1.77 million students appeared for the Bihar board class 10 matric exam in around 1,400 centres. Last year, Bihar matric results were declared on June 22 and the pass percentage was 50.12%.

Here how to check the Bihar 10th results or Bihar matric result 2018

Step 1: Log on to the Bihar board (BSEB) official website: biharboard.ac.in or biharboardonline.bihar.gov.in

Step 2: Click on the Bihar 10th Result 2018 or BSEB Class 10 Matric Result 2018 or BSEB Matric results 2018. You can also check your marks in the results section present right-hand side of the website beside contact us.

Step 3: Enter your roll number and the Bihar Board Class 10 matric results 2018 will appear

Step 4: Download the Bihar Board Matric result and take a print out for further reference

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Delhi University admission day 1: Here’s what students said

Though the university has overhauled the admission process this year by making the system digitalized, long queues were seen in front of cyber cafes near Patel Chest institute

 

Students hoping for admission in Delhi University say they faced hassles due to slow connectivity while accessing the institute’s website (www.du.ac.in) on Monday, a day after 2018’s first cut-off list for undergraduate courses was announced.

“The admission portal crashed several times and the website also took ages to get loaded. I was finally able to download the application form and got a printout ten minutes before the deadline,” said Aashi, a student who has applied for History honors at Indraprastha College for Women.

“If there are problems with internet connectivity, they should at least increase the timings for admission. Instead of 9:30am-1: 30 pm, it (the closing time) should be increased to 5:30 pm,” said Aashi.

Though the university has overhauled the admission process this year by making the system digitalized, long queues were seen in front of cyber cafes near Patel Chest institute.

Telangana State Board students were confused over the calculation of their marks. “The colleges are not accepting our 12th class mark sheet and are denying to take our aggregate marks of class 11 and 12. It is an appeal to resolve our problem soon,” said one of them who wants to pursue Physics honors from Ramjas College.

Want admission in DU? Here’s a subject-wise cut-off of top colleges

Another point of confusion was the “provisional certificate” in cases where students from Gujarat, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh did not have CBSE’s original marksheet.

“My sister has not received the original marksheet of her class 12th board results from her school and this year the university is not accepting the provisional marksheet, and because of this she did not get admission in Hansraj (College).”

By the end of the day, the university issued a circular for all colleges, asking them to accept the provisional marksheets of CBSE students, said Dr. Dhani Ram, admission convener at Ramjas College.

On the first day of the admission, the colleges did not see many enrollments. At Ramjas, out of the total 1334 seats, just 112 seats were filled and the highest enrollment was in the BCom department.

DU admission: St Stephen’s 1st cut off – 98.75% for Eco, 98.5% for English

Courses such as Sanskrit, Urdu and Hindi honors saw a poor response. Several colleges did not begin the admission process for quite a few humanities courses.

“It’s the first day, students are confused and are looking for their desired colleges, some are waiting for the second, third cutoffs, and that’s why the campus is not very crowded. But we are expecting a pace in the admission in the coming two days,” said a faculty member from Daulat Ram college.

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Want admission in DU? Here’s a subject-wise cut-off of top colleges

Delhi University on Monday announced the first cut-off list for admissions in colleges affiliated to it

 

Delhi University on Monday announced its first cut-off list for merit-based admissions into undergraduate courses for the 2018-19 academic year. The overall minimum required marks for admissions this year are lower than that of last year.

The Lady Shriram College has set the highest cut-off marks at 98.75 per cent for its BA (Programme) course.

Delhi College of Arts and Commerce has a cut-off of 98.50 per cent for BA (Hons) in Journalism, while LSR College has a cut-off of 98.25 per cent for BA (Hons) in Psychology.

Last year, the highest cut-off was 99.66 per cent for B.Sc (Hons) in Electronics in SGTB Khalsa College. In humanities stream, Khalsa College had set the highest cut-off at 99 per cent for BA (Hons) in Political Science.

Also read: DU admission: St Stephen’s 1st cut off – 98.75% for Eco, 98.5% for English

St Stephen’s College was the first to release its cut-off. For commerce students, the cut-off for Economics (Hons) was pegged at 98.75 per cent, and 98 and 97.5 per cent for humanities and science students respectively. The cut-off for English (Hons) was 97.5 per cent.

Here are the cut-off marks for admissions into some of the top colleges under Delhi University:

Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR):

B A Programme: 98.75

B Com (Hons): 97.25

B A (Hons) Economics: 97.75

B A (Hons) English: 97.50

B A (Hons) Sociology: 96.25

B A (Hons) Sanskrit: 66.00

B A (Hons) Psychology: 98.25

B A (Hons) Political Science: 97.75

B A (Hons) Philosophy: 94.00

B A (Hons) Journalism: 97.25

B A (Hons) History: 96.50

B A (Hons) Hindi: 86.00

Hindu College

B A (Hons) Economics: 98.00

B A (Hons) English: 98.00

B A (Hons) Hindi: 91.00

B A (Hons) History: 96.25

B A (Hons) Philosophy: 93.25

B A (Hons) Political Science: 97.00

B A (Hons) Sanskrit: 77.00

B A (Hons) Sociology: 96.00

B A Programme: 97.00

B Com (Hons): 97.50

Hansraj College

B A (Hons) Economics: 98.00

B A (Hons) English: 97.25

B A (Hons) Hindi: 86.00

B A (Hons) History: 96.00

B A (Hons) Sanskrit: 71.00

B A Programme:96.25

B Com (Hons): 97.50

Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC)

B A (Hons) Economics: 98.50

B Com (Hons): 97.75

Miranda House

B A (Hons) Bengali: 65.00

B A (Hons) Economics: 97.75

B A (Hons) English: 97.50

B A (Hons) Geography: 97.00

B A (Hons) Hindi: 88.00

B A (Hons) History: 96.50

B A (Hons) Philosophy: 91.50

B A (Hons) Political Science: 97.00

B A (Hons) Sanskrit: 70.00

B A (Hons) Sociology: 96.25

B A Programme: 96.50

This year, the total number of male applicants are 144,248, women 134,297 and other applicants 29.

 

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AIIMS MBBS results 2018 to be out today; check score at aiimsexams.org

This year, the total number of qualifying candidates might increase as two new AIIMS campuses offering 50 seats each will be opened for admissions

 

The All India Institute of medical Sciences (AIIMS) will declare the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, or MBBS results, (AIIMS MBBS exam results 2018), today at 6 pm (18 June, 2018).

The result will be announced on AIIMS’ official website aiimsexams.org.

The date was confirmed in media reports citing AIIMS officials from the examination cell. “The result of AIIMS MBBS 2018 examination will be declared on June 18 evening.”

The counselling process for the AIIMS MBBS entrance exam 2018 will start from the first week of July.

Over 200,000 candidates had appeared for the exam conducted on 26 and 27 May in two shifts.

Here is how to check the result

Step 1: Go to the AIIMS official website: aiimsexams.org

Step 2: Click on the Results tab

AIIMS MBBS results 2018 to be out today. Check score at aiimsexams.org

Step 3: Enter your roll number and Date of birth

Step 4: Check your score and take print out for future use.

Earlier, Bihar girl Kalpana Kumari topped the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET 2018) for admission to medical and dental colleges. She secured 99.99 percentile with 691 marks of 720. She scored 171 of 180 marks in Physics, 160 of 180 in Chemistry and 360 of 360 in Biology.

Last year in AIIMS MBBS entrance exam, the cut-off percentage for the general category was 50 per cent, while for other backward class (OBC) and Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) was 45 per cent and 40 per cent respectively. A total of 4,905 candidates had qualified in the examination.

This year the total number of qualifying candidates might increase as two new AIIMS campuses offering 50 seats each will be opened for admissions.

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