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TopicEntrance exams

Topic: Entrance exams

Jamia students protest over ‘irregularities’ in spot admissions, demand transparency

Students claim that changing the mode of spot registration to offline allowed the university to give seats to those outside the published waiting-list order.

Photos of the week: Jauhar University, Wangchuk’s Rajghat visit & strawberry farm in Uttar Pradesh

In PhotosOfTheWeek we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photojournalists, video journalists and reporters this past week.

The pressure cooker life of a 16-year-old Indian student

Built on fear and fuelled by competition, India's coaching industry and an endless parade of entrance exams are consuming childhood. ThePrint tracked the lives of 16-year-olds across seven cities.

We don’t need NEET or CUET. School-leaving exams should be enough

NEET and JEE have created a format that has caused untold damage to the meaning and purpose of true education.

Faulty systems, poor infra to ‘mistreatment’—Protesting aspirants allege SSC ‘played with their future’

Students & teachers have broken into protests over alleged mismanagement of SSC exams, slamming the firm contracted to conduct them & demanding dialogue with MoS Personnel.

At Visitor’s Conference, Indian academicians make case against ‘high-staking’ of entrance exams

Two-day annual conference was chaired by President Murmu, who is Visitor to central universities & higher education institutions. Education Minister Pradhan was also in attendance.

Govt panel on exam reforms wants NTA to conduct only entrance exams, recommends restructuring

From 2025, NTA will not conduct recruitment exams, says Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The panel was formed following allegations of irregularities in the NEET-UG exam.

Exam panel govt set up after leak fiasco recommends multi-stage NEET-UG, all entrance tests online

Panel suggests multi-level NEET-UG along lines of JEE (Advanced). It also recommends 'hybrid mode' in areas where conduct of computer-based entrance exams is not possible.

Schools where you enrol just to bunk…and go to coaching class instead. Inside India’s ‘dummy schools’

Despite violating regulations of education boards, dummy schooling has become popular among entrance exam aspirants. Coaching industry stakeholders say schools don't meet students' needs.

NEET alternative from ex IAS officers, IIT director — 8 quarterly tests, internships, centralised exam

Former education secretary R. Subrahmanyan, along with 2 others, places proposal before central panel, suggests 40:40:20 weightage to academics, social-professional aptitude & finals.

On Camera

Apple killed the base iPhone. Its status game is no longer subtle

The base model for the iPhone Duo has been pegged around Rs 3 lakh in India. The top model can cost you around Rs 4.5 lakh. You can buy a car instead.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.