John Brumfield

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Second merit list for the Bihar inter-college admissions released

The second merit list for the inter-college admissions has been released by the Bihar School Examination Board. Anand Kishor, recently took the charge as a chairman of the board and had announced that second merit list will be released by the board on September 5 for the admissions in streams like PCM, PCB, commerce and arts. The first list was released on August 19 and out of 11.46 lakh students who had applied for the admissions , the names of 9.81 lakh candidates made to the list. Kishore also said “ the BSEB would conduct the admissions in Class XI in inter-colleges from this year onwards through OFSS (Online Felicitation System for Students). Last year, we changed the exam pattern by introducing 50% objective questions and giving more options in questions to make it easy for the students. The board, however, partially succeeded in its initiative. The pass percentage of Class X had increased from 50.12% in 2017 to 68.89% in 2018, while the pass percentage of Class XII was also increased from 35.24% in 2017 to 52.95% in 2018.” About the board The board is established for holding and conducting exams at the end of the Secondary School stage, for prescribing course of studies for such examination and for carrying out such other objects and duties as may be considered necessary for the purpose as stated in the Act, Rules and Regulations of the board.

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Study in UK | UCAS application process begins

If you are one of those students who is dreaming of pursuing their UG studies from the university in the UK then it the time to fill the UCAS application form. 'The Universities and Colleges Applications Service' or UCAS is a service provided by the UK government for the students who wish to apply at any university in the UK. It is compulsory for the students who wish to pursue their UG degree from the UK. While to apply for the universities in the UK it is enough to fill UCAS other universities such as Cambridge requires that applicants fill separate from in addition to the UCAS form. The last date to complete the UCAS application form is October 15, 2018. Following are the deadlines for the undergraduate class of 2019: October 15, 2018: For any course at Oxford and Cambridge, or for most of the courses in medicine, veterinary medicine, and dentistry. January 15, 2019 at 18:00, UK time: For the majority of courses offered in UK Universities other than Oxford and Cambridge. March 24, 2019 at 18:00, UK time: For some Art and Design courses. The eligibility criteria for admissions varies among the universities and it is required that applicants check the eligibility criteria thoroughly before filling the application form. International and non-EU students are required to fulfill certain requirements regarding the English language. Generally universities accept TOEFL or IELTS score or both but it is still advised that candidates check with the university website about the test scores they accept before applying to the university. To complete the application process, candidates are required to provide a written recommendation by a teacher, advisor or professional who knows you academically.

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3 Schools from Haryana are selected for the ‘Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskarʼ

For the academic year 2017-18, the Center has selected three government schools from the state of Haryana for the ‘Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskarʼ. The award was instituted by the center in 2016-17 inspire and celebrate excellence in water, sanitation and hygiene practices among the government elementary schools and secondary schools. The award is given at the district, state and national levels. The awards will be conferred to the schools on September 18 by the Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar. The schools which have been selected from Haryana are: Aarohi Model Senior Secondary School (AMSSS), Bhiwani Rohilla, HisarAMSSS, Ramgarh Pandwa, KaithalGovernment Primary School, Kirmara, Hisar Each of these school will be given an additional grant of INR 50,000 which they can spend to further improve the sanitation and hygiene. The schools are required to utilize the grant as per the school grant guidelines. Hisar is among the top nine performing districts in the country with the highest number of schools qualified for the SVP 2017-18.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

National Teachers Award to be given on Teachers day on September 5

The Ministry of Human Resource Development said on Monday that National Teachers Awards will be given on the occasion of Teachers day and like the last year these awards will be presented by the Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu. On Tuesday, PM Narendra Modi will interact with the recipients of the awards at his residence. Teachers from the state and central government schools and those which are affiliated with the CBSE and CISCE are eligible for the award. This year, the government has also introduced some changes in the eligibility criteria including the other rules such as making the entire process online and allowing the teachers to self-nominate and directly apply for the award. By removing the minimum age criterion, the government has made the competition open to the young teachers. In order to restore the prestige of the awards, the government has reduced to the number of awards from 300 to 45. The Ministry in a statement said “6,692 teachers have applied for the award, of whom 152 were nominated for the award by states, Union Territories and other organizations. These nominated teachers gave a presentation before an independent jury comprising a senior educationist, during third week of August”.

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JEE Main 2019 will be conducted in online mode

The registrations are going on for the JEE Mains 2019 exam and NTA will conduct the first JEE Mains 2019 exam in the month of January. From 2019, the JEE Mains exam will be conducted in online mode only. Earlier, students had the option of choosing whether they want to appear for the exam in pen and paper mode or online mode. JEE Mains paper 1 which will be conducted for the B.Tech courses will be conducted in online mode only and paper II which is for the B.Arch./B.Planning will be in the pen and paper mode. Paper II has three parts. Paper I and Paper II which are of Mathematics and Aptitude test will be conducted online and the Paper III which is a drawing test will be conducted in offline mode on drawing sheet. JEE Mains 2019 in January will be conducted from January 6 to January 20 in two sessions and Paper III will be held in only one session and students will be required to complete the exam in one sitting only. JEE Main II will be conducted in April. A students does not have to appear in both the exams and in case he/she appears then the best score of the two will be considered for the admission purposes.

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IIT JAM 2019 | Registrations for the exam to commence from tomorrow

According to the latest information, the registration process for the IIT JAM 2019 exam will commence from tomorrow. Earlier, the registrations were to commence from September 1 but due to some unknown reasons the process was postponed to September 5. This year, the organizing committee for the IIT JAM 2019 is IIT-KGP. The last date for the registration window to close is October 10, 2018. The exam is scheduled on February 10, 2019 and will be conducted in to sessions. It is a computer based test for Biological Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Geology and Mathematical Statistics papers. The exam is conducted every year to grant full-time admissions in M.Sc. (Two Years), Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D., M.Sc.-Ph.D. Dual Degree, M.Sc.- M.Tech., and other Post-Bachelor's Degree Programs at different IITs and Integrated Ph.D. Programs at IISc. Candidates who have completed their Bachelor’s degree with aggregate marks or CGPA/CPI 55%/5.5 are eligible to appear in the exam. The marks obtained by the candidate should not be rounded-off. For the candidates belonging to reserved classes the limit is 50%/5 (out of 10). For more information regarding the eligibility criteria candidates are advised to read the official notification before filling the form.

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Monday, September 3, 2018

NLU announced an increase in the seats; Students smell a foul play

Only a few days before declaring the results, the National Law University announced its decision to double the number of seats for this year’s Master of Laws (LL.M.) batch. The decision has raised the suspicion as many candidates are seeing this as a convenient way to bring the students from the back door. Lawyer Mohit Gupta also filed an RTI query and asked for the minutes of the meetings which led to this decision. “What will be its (university’s) course of action if it is approached by a large number of students in the next academic year demanding an increase,” he asked. Originally the university has announced only 40 seats for the 2018 batch but after conducting the exam they raised the number of seats to 80. The entrance exam was held on May 6 but the notification announcing the increase in the number of seats was issued on June 27. “It is notified that the University has decided to increase the number of seats for admission to LL.M. program for the academic session 2018-19… The seats will be filled strictly on the merit of AILET-2018 in the sport counseling scheduled to be held on July 13, 2018. The seats under Foreign National category will be filled up on the academic merit of qualifying examination,” the notification issued by the University read. “I didn’t apply for the entrance exam thinking it would be tough to crack into the top 40. Had they announced the increase in seats, I would have applied, since NLU was anyway my first choice. The other two contenders — IP University and Jindal School of Law — are very expensive,” a student, who graduated from Delhi University’s Faculty of Law told IANS. When IANS contacted the university to the reason behind such a decision, an official from the university said “this was done to give a wider reach of legal education to society and that the decision was in conformity with the Admission Announcement as it also said the number of seats may vary”. “Moreover, the action taken by the University to increase the number of seats was also approved by the Academic Council and Executive Council,” NLU-D Registrar G.S. Bajpai said.

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