Providing relief to students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released notification for the conduct of class 10th only for northeast district Delhi and class 12th examinations, which are scheduled to be held from 1 July to 15 July 2020.
Earlier, the CBSE datesheet for both class 10 and 12 were already released. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said it will let class 10 and 12 students who travelled to their homes during lockdown to write pending board examinations from their home states or districts.
The development came amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown, which was imposed by the government on 25 Macrh, 2020 in order to combat Coronavirus outbreak in the country.
The pending class 10 and 12 board exams will be conducted at 15,000 centres across the country instead of 3,000 centres planned earlier.
CBSE has now released a scheme to conduct the examinations and has pointed out that examinations will be conducted in the respective schools of the candidates. It also added that, “In each district, where CBSE is having affiliated schools, one school will be fixed as nodal examination centre for those candidates who shifted from their earlier district.”
The education board also mentioned that no examination centre will be permitted inside a containment zone and those whose schools fall into the zone will be allotted a centre outside it.
In the wake of COVID-19 lockdown, the govt has imposed a lockdown across the country. The nationwide lockdown has put India’s education system in uncertainty. Students in India are facing multiple issues including incomplete syllabus, delay in exams, unavailability of study materials, lack of guidance and many more. Due to social distancing, learning through a classroom setup will be hugely affected. The crisis has led to a communication gap between the students and the professors. The only potential option left to overcome this hurdle is through E-learning platforms.
An IIT Madras startup, Melvano is helping students pursue their preparations for competitive entrance exams like JEE Main, JEE Advanced and NEET. Melvano is an artificial intelligence-based learning app that is radically transforming the face of learning by providing adaptive practice interface for millions of aspirants in this lockdown.
This app has student-centred approach that guides students, based on their individual learning needs. It uses artificial intelligence to identify the candidates’ strengths and weaknesses, based on which learners are given a set of important questions, solved examples and the study material for effective learning and thorough practice. Users can appear for a mock test or the ‘daily live test’ to gain experience of the examination environment and can keep a track of their progress with the help of the performance report available on the app.
Melvano’s CEO, Taran Singh, an IIT Madras alumnus said “India has an enormous lower to middle- class student population. It pains me to see parents taking burdensome loans with heavy interest rates, just to provide coaching to their children. Melvano was curated to tackle this very problem and help students achieve their dreams. The app is completely free for all students so parents need not worry about financial issues.”
“This year, a large number of students have opted for E-learning as the JEE Main & JEE Advanced exams are now completely held online. Since the lockdown, we are experiencing a 2x surge in the questions practiced on our app. Students are now getting familiar and comfortable with technology- driven preparations. Our app provides aspirants with personalized tools to help track their daily performance. The added advantage of E-learning is that it gives students the freedom to learn at any time of the day as per their schedule”, Singh added.
Singh also said “E-learning platforms also make it easy for parents to keep a daily track of their child’s performance as opposed to traditional learning, where parents are clueless about the day to day developments. Currently, many E-learning platforms are opting for Gamification to increase the student’s interest in studies. As students are experiencing the benefits and comfort of E-learning, I believe it will be extremely hard for aspirants to go back to their old routines once the Coronavirus issues subdue. Currently, Indian engineering and medical aspirants are around 5 million out of which 2 million students opt for online learning. Melvano had already got a good chunk of 5% market share, and aims to cross 1 million students by the end of 2020’’
Melvano, born out of Nirmaan Labs, IIT Madras, was awarded with the prestigious Sri Chinmay Deodhar Award by IIT Madras for the ‘Most Innovative Project’. The startup has raised Angel funding and is currently looking to raise another round of investment to scale their user base.
This year two Melvano students were in the Top 1 percentile of JEE Main, with Sarthak Diwan scoring 99.968 percentile (around All India Rank 200).
Interested engineering and medical aspirants can download the Melvano app by clicking here
In the prevailing condition of the spread of the COVID19 pandemic, the CBSE has decided to conduct the remaining examination in a safe manner and have opted for two ways to conduct the July examinations.
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released notice on pending CBSE Board Exam 2020 for Class 10, 12. The official notice is available on the official site-cbse.nic.in.
CBSE has decided to conduct the examination in two ways- first, the examinations would now be conducted in the respective schools of the candidates instead of the exam center already allotted and secondly the Board will allow change of examination center in respect of candidates who have shifted and are residing in some other district in the country than the place of their school.
To make the change in the examination center both the regular and the private candidates should meet the eligibility criteria. Candidates will have to in other districts to apply for exam center change as a change of center in the same district will not be allowed.
The change of exam center will be accepted by CBSE only through the schools of the candidates who want to apply for the center change. Schools will have to contact their students to know whether they have shifted to some other district and would they like to avail the facility of examination center change or not.
In the wake of Corona pandemic, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has postponed the entrance examinations for the July-August 2020 Academic Session. The entrance examinations scheduled to be conducted on June 5, 2020, have been postponed to be conducted on July 11, 2020, according to the notification.
AIIMS conducts entrance examinations for the AIIMS Fellowship Programme; DM, MCh and MD (hospital administration); BSc (post-basic); MSc (nursing) and MD, MS, DM (6 years), MCh (6 years) and MDS programmes.
The official notification of the revised examination schedule is available on the official website – aiimsexams.org.
The admit card for the AIIMS Entrance Examination will be available on the official website for download from June 3, 2020. Candidates will be able to download the AIIMS entrance admit card by entering the login details in the admit card link.
According to the details mentioned on the official notification the examination cities will be allotted to the candidates based on the choice and the availability of the centre. The institution has also mentioned that the advisories or guidelines of the government with regard to social distancing and sanitization will be followed at all the AIIMS examination centres.
In the wake of novel Coronavirus pandemic, the UP government has cancelled the bidding of procurement of 1.6 lakh tablet computers and 1.60 cr school bags which were supposed to be distributed among the school children in primary and upper primary schools.
The tablet computers were for principals of various schools, to keep tap on attendance of students, teachers, mid-meal meal scheme and other government schemes.
The e-bid for tablets closed on May 28 as only one company bid for it. Around Rs 150 cr were allocated for purchase of 1.6 lakh tablets by the UP govt.
However, the UP govt has said re-bidding will be done for tablets as major firms were unable to bid due to the lockdown.
The e-bidding of school bags cancelled as the govt was not ready to compromise on quality of bags provided to students.
According to reports, without providing specifications of bags to bidders, the govt opened the tender which left bidders confused.
The govt will again open the bidding for schools bags very soon.
Around the world, schools in over 190 countries are closed to protect against the spread of Coronavirus, affecting the education of nearly 1.5 billion children.
With the imposition of lockdown, normal life has been thrown out of gear, affecting school-going children and their schedules. While virtual classrooms and online classes are back in focus, another non-traditional method, Home Schooling is being discussed vigorously, especially when homes have become learning centres.
In some parts of the world, it will be down to parents to keep their child’s education going as best they can. But digital technologies are increasingly being used to deliver lessons to children at home.
In this crisis, the government has come up with e-learning program. Many ed-tech firms have tried to leverage the occasion by offering free online classes or attractive discounts on e-learning modules. These measures have been met with overwhelming response by students with some startups witnessing as high as 25% uptick in e-learning. Remote learning seems a viable solution to students during this time as they offer convenient, on -the- go and affordable access to lessons. E-learning also comes as an interesting and interactive alternative as compared to classroom teaching.
Elets Technomedia and digitalLEARNING Magazine organized a webinar on “Crisis Management in the times of Covid 19 – Initiatives by Haryana to make students study at home” with Amneet P Kumar, Secretary, Department of School Education and Director General Secondary education, Government of Haryana. She shared her views over the steps Haryana govt is taking to ensure education for students.
During the webinar Amneet P Kumar said “We have around 20 lakh students in Haryana. Around 8 lakh books have been issued to students from the books bank. We also make sure that all these students up to 8th standard are being given mid-day meal. All the services provided to schools will be continuously provided to students even if they are at home.”
She emphasized on the usage of technology in admission and said Haryana is trying for 100 percent admissions through online this year.
Over digital education, she said “We have linked our lectures and classes with DD, D2H for students. There is a timetable for all the students. Once in a week, the timetable is shared and three times a day the sessions are being conducted on TV so that students can attend the class at the time convenient to them. The govt is trying to rope in other OTT platforms to provide study materials to students.”
For midday meal – Firstly, ration money for the students calculated and ration is being delivered to students. Secondly, the cooking money was calculated and distribution is being done to every child’s Aadhar based accounts. Dry ration is also being supplied to families of govt school students. The ration is being delivered at their homes, she added.
We understand that many govt students do not have access to the internet, laptops, smartphones, YouTube or such platforms to receive content. Therefore TV was one medium which we used to reach all the students. Now lakhs of students in the state are receiving online lectures three times a day, she added.
She also added, Earlier, children were wasting time watching other content on TV but now they are watching online lectures and coping up with their studies. This is the common feedback we got from parents since the lockdown started.
She hailed the role of technology in the education sector. A lot of credit goes to the Ministry of Broadcasting and Additional Chief Secretary Mahaveer Singh for broadcasting Education content on Doordarshan so that students can be connected through TV, she said.
There is an organization Pratham, they work with us extensively. We have a call centre and we take regular feedback from parents about their children. Teacher was nowhere in picture as all the content streaming on TV was prepared for students. So we asked teachers to contact students through WhatsApp to take feedback from them about the content. So now at the end of the day, we have a map of Haryana marked with colour codes displaying how many students attended the programme, she said.
We have been also monitoring, WhatsApp groups and call centres, so that quality of content must be given to students. Our teachers contributed around Rs 50 cr from their salaries for COVID relief fund, she added.
After waiting for many days, students can finally check their Jharkhand 9th result 2020. The Jharkhand Academic Council has released the JAC Class 9 result 2020. Students can check their results on official site jacresults.com/jac.jharkhand.gov.in. The marksheets and certificates of JAC 9th result 2020 will be made available later.
Around 97% of students who appeared for the Class 9 Exam have passed the examination with flying colours in the JAC 9th Result 2020. The total number of students who had appeared of the exam was 4,17,030 of which 4,06,293 students have cleared the JAC 9th Class Exam taking the overall pass percentage to 97.42%.
JAC also plans to announce Jharkhand 8th Class Result 2020 and JAC 11th Class Result 2020 as well by next week.
In the view of the Coronavirus pandemic and the risk of infection for students, if they venture out of their homes to check Jharkhand 9th Result 2020 online; the board will be declaring the results only via website.
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has launched a first of its kind E-Learning platform, “KIDGLOVE”- a new Portal to empower students to be digitally safe.
The project, initiated by Kerala Police in association with ISRA and the eSafety Commissioner, Australian Government, is a unique step to educate students, teachers and parents on cyber security.
Loknath Behera, State Police Chief and Manoj Abraham, ADGP have attended the function.
The Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan also launched an initiative named ‘First Bell’. Kerala has begun its academic year with online classes for school students.
The Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has released the timetable for the classes that will be carried out through KITE Victors Channel, and they will be also available on YouTube.
Vijayan said that the government has opted for online classes as students cannot reach schools due to COVID-19, during the launch of the initiative.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has also added 24 new courses on the SWAYAM Portal making the total number of courses 45 including some independent courses from verified fields and subjects such as Agriculture, Sustainability Science, Library and Information Science, Sociology, Law, Tourism, Languages, Information Technology, Event Management and Visual Art.
Candidates interested to apply for the online courses offered by IGNOU can visit the official website of IGNOU to register.
Candidates interested to register for the online programmes can also complete the registration process through the IGNOU Online Portal or through the Samarth Portal.
While sharing the details of the new online programmes launched, professor Nageshwar Rao, Vice-Chancellor of IGNOU in a Facebook Live session conducted said that the new courses launched is in continuation to the university’s efforts towards the MHRDs initiative ‘Bharat Padhe Online’
Earlier on, the MHRD Minister had launched IGNOUs MA Hindi, MA Gandhi and Peace Studies and other online programmes last month which gave a boost to the online education culture amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic across the country.
The University Vice-Chancellor also gave the details of the programmes being offered by the different schools of IGNOU online along with appreciating the faculty members for making all this happen in such a short period of time.
