As part of new National Education Policy 2020, the education ministry is bringing a series of reforms, including two difficulty levels of question papers for English & Sanskrit.
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced the board exam dates Thursday during a Twitter interaction. He said exam results would likely be out by 15 July.
Maharashtra and Gujarat have announced the decision to delay 2021 state board exams. But CBSE, CISCE officials say they’re awaiting govt instructions to take a call on the matter.
The top court was hearing a plea filed on behalf of over 2 lakh students seeking cancellation of the exams on the ground it is not safe to write the papers amid a pandemic.
This year’s CBSE and CISCE results being declared without a merit list is a positive step. Such lists only give students false ideas of success & create panic.
CBSE said it has decided to not call students ‘fail’ on mark-sheets, but refer it as ‘essential repeat’. Optional exams will be conducted for students not satisfied with their results.
CBSE officials say they’re calculating results on the basis of an evaluation scheme this year and, therefore, coming up with a merit list makes no sense in such a situation.
Topics such as Doppler's effect, electric currents and basic metallurgical processes have been omitted, which educators say are common topics to be tested on and have practical use.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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