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CBSE needs to revise its way of Students Evaluation

As per Sarita Manuja, the Director of Centre for Assessment Evaluation and Research (CAER) syas that though the written examinations cannot be done away with completely, but there is a need to change the way children’s performance is assessed. The MCQs (Multiple choice questions) play a vital role in assessing where the understanding levels of […]

Students get just 24 hours to challenge the answer keys of JEE Main!

The Central Board of Secondary Education has declared the answer keys of JEE Main. The keys of both online and offline exam were uploaded on Monday afternoon and shall be available only till 5 PM on Tuesday. Students have been asked to challenge the answer keys by Tuesday evening which gives them around 24 hours […]

JEE-Candidate Went on Fast for not Making It to JEE Merit List

Just because the reputed IITs have made headlines for all the good reasons always doesn’t mean that they were never in news for some embarrassing moments. One such embarrassment was broke loose on IITs a few years back when one of the JEE candidates went on a fast after failing to make it to the […]

OMR Sheets To Be Made Available for JEE Candidates Today-JEE-Main 2014

Today, on April 25th, 2014, JEE-Main OMR sheet has been made available for around 1 million candidates who had appeared for the pen and paper version of the examination. JEE-Main 2014 was conducted on April 6th, 2014. According to reports, 1.3 million candidates had applied for the JEE-Main 2014. CBSE has informed all the candidates […]

Of Mysteries and the Truth—Is BITSAT Tougher Than JEE-Main?

IITs have earned themselves a huge reputation across the world in technical education owing to many illustrious achievements in the past to its credit. Millions of engineering aspirants toil through days and nights to crack IIT-JEE in a hope of making it to the hallowed engineering institutions of India. But the claims of supremacy by […]

IIT,IIM alumnus feels hopeless as he tops UPSC too in a row

As the results of the Civil services examinations were declared a couple of days back, the Fiction TV reporter KAALPNIK met with the topper AVVAL SINGH. Following are some excerpts from the interview with the star: KAALPNIK: Hearty congratulations, Mr. AVVAL. You have topped the most prestigious exam of the country- the Civil Services exam. How […]

Raining Ideas at IIT-Bombay in the Month of April

April marked the season of rains of ideas at IIT-Bombay where promising entrepreneurs, mentors, and investors shared their innovative ideas during the launch of I-ASCEND. ‘I-ASCEND’ is a joint flagship entrepreneurship forum formed with the IIT Bombay Alumni Association. SINE (The Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship) conducted the event, which is the technology business incubation […]

Why IITs are not The Best Institutions of the World?

A number of questions from curious minds are doing the rounds this so called IIT-JEE season. However, the one that has drawn more attention this year is—why are IITs not the best universities in the world despite the fact that IIT-JEE is the most difficult examination in the world. All right! The question is tricky. […]