DUET 2019 Results: The result for Delhi University Entrance Test (DUET) 2019 exam has been released by the National Testing Agency (NTA) today, i.e. July 16, 2019. NTA, the exam conducting body, had held the test on July 3 and July 6.
Besides the result, National Testing Agency (NTA) has also released answer key for the DUET exam. Students who have appeared for the examination can check their result by submitting their application number and date of birth.
DUET 2019 Result: Follow the steps below to check
Step one: Go to official website: du.ac.in
Step two: Click on the link given for checking individual results.
Step three: Enter your application form number and date of birth.
Step four: Submit and view your result.
There is a separate link given on the website for students to check answer key.
Notably, the DUET answer key has been released for the courses namely: LLB, B.Tech. (IT & Mathematical Innovations), Bachelor of Education and B.A. (Honours) Multimedia and Mass Communication.
The agency will soon release the result for rest of the courses as well. The courses which have both the Entrance Test and Interview, the list of shortlisted candidates and dates of interview will be notified on the DU admission portal shortly.
For the uninitiated, DUET is conducted for admission to some of the undergraduate courses, postgraduate courses, M.Phil., and M.Phil.-PhD. The examination was conducted in 18 different cities across India in the computer-based mode.
One day ago the Delhi Universityhad released the fourth cut off list for admission to undergraduate courses based on merit. The process will be concluded tomorrow, i.e. on July 17, 2019
The varsity will release the fifth cut off on July 20, but only if the seats remain vacant after the admissions through fourth list.
The University of Delhi (DU) has opened admissions for some of the student’s favorite courses with the release of fourth cut off list. However, the cut off is only slightly less than the previous cut offs.
For B.Com (H) course, Hindu College had set the cut off at 97.75 per cent in the third cut off and the admissions were closed after that. Now in the fourth cut off, the admissions have been reopened with only a marginal dip in percentage i.e. at 97.5 per cent.
Besides, other courses available at Hindu College are BA (H) Sociology and B.Sc. (H) Zoology at 96.75 and 95.66 per cent respectively.
On the other hand, at Ramjas College, admission for B.Sc. (H) Zoology, which was concluded in the third cut off, has been restarted at 94 per cent cut off.
Other popular courses which are still available for students are: BA (H) English at 95.5 per cent, B.Com at 96.75 per cent, BA (H) Economics at 97.25 per cent whereas admissions have been closed for B.Com. Honors), and B.Sc. (H) Statistics at 96 per cent.
Talking about Miranda House, the college has closed admissions for most of the courses. Only courses open for admission are BA (H) Bengali at 61 per cent, BA (H) Geography at 96.5 per cent, BA (H) Economics at 97.25 per cent and B.Sc. (H) Botany at 94.33 per cent.
Alternatively, among off-campus colleges, many of them have lowered the cut offs but have also closed admission for most of the popular courses.
Based on the fourth cut off list, the admissions will begin today i.e. July 15 and conclude on July 17, 2019. In case, seats remain even after the fourth enrollment drive, the colleges will come out with fifth cut off list on July 20, 2019.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said that 4,800 MBBS seats have been reserved for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in the current academic session.
In his address, Vardhan informed the Lok Sabha that medical seats in the post graduate and undergraduate courses have been increased by 24,698 in the last two years.
During the 2017-18 to 2019-20 period, a rise of 15,815 UG seats and 2,153 PG seats has been witnessed.
Whereas, for the academic session 2019-20, 10, 565 UG seats and 2,153 PG seats have been increased, according to the data shared by him in the lower house of the Parliament.
The Minister of Health and Family Welfare, during the Question Hour, informed that there are now 75,000 MBBS seats for the candidates who qualify the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET).
He said, “The government has taken several steps to increase the number of seats in various medical educational institutes/ medical colleges across the country”.
Notably, all medical colleges have been instructed to start PG courses within three years from the date of their MBBS course recognition.
New medical colleges are also being established by upgrading district/referral hospitals preferably in under-served districts, said the minister.
Hindi’s stature as a language that connects a majority of people in India has also taken a toll. Globalization has opened up a lot of opportunities and English has come to be the most important language of the century, observes Mohit Bansal, Founder and CEO, iChamp.
Mohit Bansal, Founder and CEO, iChamp
With around half a billion native speakers, Hindi is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Even though it is quite common in North India, a large section of the population can speak it well but find it difficult to write in it. This stands true for kids as well, most children today speak in Hindi with their friends and at home but when it comes to writing in the language, it becomes surprisingly hard to pen down words and expressions. It is a pain-area for parents also, because they find it challenging to teach the language to their kids and search for Hindi tutors. A survey conducted by iChamp also showed that Hindi is a big challenge for students in metros.
Hindi-speaking masses are looked down upon owing to a rather unpopular opinion that it signifies a sense of backwardness while English gives a sense of superiority and high-class. But that shouldn’t stop us from learning a language that has historical and cultural roots in our country and helps us connect with most of them.
The following are a few reasons why children today are weaker in Hindi –
Script is different from most Western languages
The Hindi script appears similar to the Arabic style of writing and is often considered difficult because the characters are quite unique, and kids require some time and practice to master their strokes and lines unlike the English alphabet.
Grammar is tough
Many kids complain about Hindi grammar as it is confusing for them because they are learning English also. In English, they learn the format SVO (Subject+Verb+Object) while in Hindi it is SOV (Subject+Object+Verb) and the gender usage in Hindi requires extra efforts as well. One of the biggest reasons is that parents themselves have forgotten Hindi grammar and are not capable of teaching kids. This leads to kids not being very comfortable with Hindi from a very early age itself.
Reading is now limited to English
Reading in Hindi has also gone down substantially. In a typical middle class family in urban india, from newspaper to magazines, hoardings on roads, signage on top of shops – everything is in English. Kids are not exposed to hindi at all in their day to day life.
Emphasis on English
Hindi may be India’s most widely spoken language, but the language of the government and business is resolutely English. Parents often emphasize more on English as they think their kids would do better in life if they become fluent in the global language early. Another reason is that Hindi speaking people are often looked at as inferior and English has come to denote class and elitism which is why most urban parents want their kids to speak in English even at home and when communicating with them.
Hindi is not “cool” anymore, as far as the younger generation is concerned, Hinglish is considered a more viable option.
Reasons alone cannot constitute solutions so here are some tips to help improve Hindi for your kids –
Hindi grammar may not be easy to grasp at once. But you can make it fun for your child by giving Hindi worksheets for practice after school.
Multilingual children may get confused with gender usage or other conflicting grammar concepts if they don’t use the Hindi language on a regular basis. Explain the differences by answering your child’s queries with patience.
Encourage Hindi conversations and get good Hindi comics for reading and also read them bedtime stories from Hindi story books.
We should understand that in today’s time, being multilingual is more beneficial. Research has shown that learning multiple languages challenges the brain and improves cognitive and social-emotional development. This is why there is a need to emphasize and focus on other languages including Hindi for your kids.
Delhi University has witnessed the maximum number of admission to the B Com courses of its affiliated colleges, with Zakir Husain College having the highest enrollment of students.
As per the data releassed by the varsity, 49,971 admission have taken place so far in its affiliated colleges of which cancellations stands at 8,348 and withdrawals at 1,234.
So far 5,252 students have chosen B com whereas 4,897 have opted for B Com (Honours) and 4,204 students have enrolled into B A (Honours) Political Science, the data revealed.
With 1,611 enrollments in B Com courses, Zakir Husain College has witnessed the maximum admissions followed by Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College at 1,580 and Kirori Mal College at 1,476, according to the data by the Delhi University.
BA (Honours) History and BA (Honours) Hindi are among the other two popular two courses which have seen 2,683 and 2,279 enrollments respectively so far.
Many colleges under DU have closed their admissions to BA (Honours) Political Science for the unreserved category after the announcement of first and second cut-off lists.
The fourth cut-off list for admission to DU colleges will be released on July 14.
More than 50,000 students have taken admissions in various colleges of Delhi University for the academic session 2019-20, till now. The university shared the admission data on Wednesday, two days after the third cut-off was released.
In the statement, university informed that a total of 50,989 admissions have taken place and the process has witnessed 1,165 withdrawals since the commencement of the admission.
However, the total number of cancellations reached the mark of 4,061 since Tuesday. The third cut-off list for admission to undergraduate courses was announced on July 8, 2019 (Monday). The list saw a marginal decline in scores, required for admission, as seats were vacant in North Campus colleges for courses such as BA (Honours) Economics, BCom (Honours) and science stream for general-category aspirants.
Notably, Delhi University, from this year onwards, has increased the seats by 10 per cent for the EWS (economically weaker sections) category students for the undergraduate and post graduate courses.
After the effect, the number of seats for undergraduate courses rose by 6,000 seats, taking the total tally to 62,000. The varsity even released separate cut-offs for the EWS category.
Amazon Alexa, a virtual assistant developed by Amazon, has been popular in India from quite a sometime. Now, it has spread its wings in the rural segment as well. Alexa is becoming famous amongst the rural kids after Amazon recently upgraded its software with an Indian accent.
The students of Amravati Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) Warud School in Mahar ask questions from Alexa across topics and she answers them spontaneously. She also joins them while reciting poems and also takes part in other classroom activities.
And not only this, they can even see her. The school has installed a mannequin for Alexa, dressed in jeans and sweater wearing glasses.
“Most of our students are from nearby slum areas, and they have been excited that a robot is in their classroom,” a faculty member was quoted as saying by a leading news website.
The idea of Alexa robot in schools has been adopted from ‘Sophia’, world’s first Artificial Intelligence robot with citizenship. It has helped in brushing up their vocabulary thereby reducing dependence on Internet.
Many of the online learning platforms such as BYJUhave been utilising digital assistants to create educational content for the students. An Ed-tech startup ‘Learning Matters’ even launched its own Alexa named ‘Tara’ for schools in the state of Tamil Nadu.
Notably, the trend of using voice assistants has been spreading like a wildfire in India. As per a recent survey from Accenture, one third of Indian population is considering to buy a smart speaker device this year.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has announced to draft a new education policy for the State while presenting the State Budget for 2019-20 on Wednesday i.e. July 10, 2019.
Referring it as people’s budget which has been prepared considering their sentiments and suggestions, Gehlot said, “We have made efforts to include the suggestions and sentiments of the people. The Budget was prepared after discussion with all sections of the society. Achieving new heights in development would be priority of the State Government.”
Showing their commitment towards improving the education sector in the State, the Government is going to open 50 new primary schools in the State and construct more than 14,000 classes and laboratories. The Rajasthan Government also allocated Rs 1,581 crore for modernisation of education.
Ashok Gehlot led Government of Rajasthan is also emhasisisng on the betterment of education for students belonging to minority communities. In this budget, Rs 10 crore are allocated to set up smart classes in Madrasas and a hostel in Alwar district for girl students belonging to minority communities.
In the Budget, the Government also allocated Rs 10 crore for a career counselling centre in Jaipur and two coaching centres each at Sagwara and Udaipur.
In an endeavour to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions in India and accelerate AI Innovations, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras faculty has launched a new platform – “AI4Bharat”.
The official statement released by the Institute states that the platform will serve as the collaboration ground for community of AI professionals, students, policy makers, domain experts and academicians. Together they can work towards solving real-world challenges in different fields such as Agriculture, Healthcare, Digital India, Smart Cities and Sustainability.
It will be a community of AI professionals, students, domain experts, policy makers and academicians collaborating on solving real-world challenges in Agriculture, Healthcare, Smart Cities, Digital India and sustainability, said a statement from the Institute.
Launched on July 10, 2019 (Wednesday), the platform of ‘AI4Bharat’ eyes to make artificial intelligence related research focus majorly on India-centric problems, rather than west.
AI4Bharat is founded by Dr Mitesh M Khapra and Dr Pratyush Kumar. They are serving as Assistant Professors in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.
Speaking about the role of AI in present context Dr Kumar said, “AI is one of the defining technologies of this age. However, much of the research in AI today is driven by the problems of the West. For instance, building autonomous cars takes priority over building systems that can monitor the condition of rural roads”.
“We need to change this by shifting the focus to India. This is where domain experts and the government would play an important role – identify problems that are unique to India and can benefit from AI,” he added.
Highlighting the importance of building a community for AI, Dr Khapra said, “To solve such problems it is important to move AI research and development out of silos and create a platform where AI professionals can come together to design and build impactful solutions. With this in mind, our immediate goal is to create a community of 100 selected AI experts and 50 domain experts”.
Notably, the platform will also work with ‘One Fourth Labs’ to offer basic and advanced courses in Artificial Intelligence at affordable prices. They will be mentored to solve real-world problems.
