KOLKATA: The Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) has decided to lower the pass marks for the Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations from this academic session, a top official said on Thursday. Pass marks have been reduced from 35 per cent to 33 per cent for ICSE students and from 40 per […]
Read more >Study finds engaging young children in conversation is more important for brain development than “dumping words” on them. A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than children from lower-income families. This “30-million-word gap” correlates with significant differences in tests […]
Read more >Selfies today have become the most common form of self-expression. But a major pain point for all selfielovin’ folk has by far been ”pictures that are not that realistic”. When a guy takes a selfie, he often finds himself looking too pale in the picture – either the face contour is not distinct, or his […]
Read more >NEW DELHI: TeamIndus, a private company that hoped to reach the moon by December 31 this year, has dropped out of the global race for the Google Lunar X Prize. TeamIndus was competing for the $35 million prize money, for which five teams from across the world are in fray. The challenge involved a putting […]
Read more >BENGALURU: Infosys CEO Salil Parekh told employees in his first address that each one of them has an important role to play in today’s world of continuous technological disruptions, and that this could be done by reskilling themselves. Parekh joined Infosys on Tuesday. He said in the video address that he met a few “exceptional […]
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This past Sunday, the largest annual sporting event took place in Glendale, Arizona, the host city of Super Bowl XLIX, or Super Bowl 49 – also called the the championship game of the National Football League (NFL). This year’s Super Bowl turned out to be a classic between the New England Patriots and last year’s […]
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A total of 1,24,434 candidates registered for Paper II (meant for secondary school teachers), out of which only 7,078 students cleared the test. Candidates in the English medium performed the worst with a disappointing pass percentage of 2.23, followed by Urdu medium with 3.23, and Marathi medium with 5.9 pass percentage. The abysmal plight of […]
Read more >The situation was similar,last year,when the test was conducted for the first time. As the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the results for the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) in Chandigarh,Panchkula and Mohali on Tuesday,the number of candidates qualifying in the test continued to be low this year as well. Of the total […]
Read more >The poor results of the Central Teacher Eligibility Test,which were declared last week,have raised many an eyebrow in the citys education circles. The poor results of the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET),which were declared last week,have raised many an eyebrow in the citys education circles. Only 14 per cent of the candidates,who appeared for the […]
Read more >A division bench of Justices Huluvadi G Ramesh and M V Muralidaran referred to Article 30 of the Constitution which confers right to religious minorities to establish and administer educational institutions The Madras High Court has ruled that the order of the governments of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry making it mandatory for aspirants to clear […]
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