As you may be aware, many schools follow the practice of starting class XI alongwith other classes in the month of April in the new academic session to utilize the period before summer vacation for instructional purposes. Academically this is a correct practice so thai the children may remain busy with meaningful activities. The schools admit students of class XI provisionally before the announcement of the result of class X Board examination and accordingly allow them the subject’s choice/stream as per their performance in pre-board exams and unit tests.
A case was filed in the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi, and the brief facts of the case are that in a particular schools, on account of wrong calculation of the grade, a particular combination of subjects were allotted to a student Subsequently the said student was asked to pursue some other combination of subject In order to avoid hardship to the students, on account of change of stream, certain guidelines were given to the schools, vis-a-vis the said student, which are produced below for compliance by all the schools affiliated to the CBSE for dealing with such instances:
(a) Schools shall not claim any fee from the parent/student for the past period and adjust the fee already deposited by him towards the fee shall be payable for the next period
(b) Schools shall make good the loss of classes in the Commerce stream (or other stream/subjects) suffered by the student, by giving him special coaching classes without burdening him/his parents with any additional fee for the same.
(c) Further. Schools shall bear the burden of all the expenses, to be incurred by the students/his parents in buying a second set of books and study materials for the allocated subject/stream and reimburse them on the basis of the bills produced by them.
(d) Schools shall give the parent/student the benefit of his attendance by including the classes attended by him/her in the Non-Medical Science Stream with Computer or any other stream/subjects.
(e) Schools shall take into consideration, the results of Unit Test-1 and Unit Test-2 taken by the student while carrying out an analysis of his results at the end of class XI. If considered necessary, a reasonable relaxation may also be given to the student to make up for the loss of academic session suffered by him/her in the Commerce stream or any other stream/subject in the current academic year.
(f) To avoid any such occurrence in future, schools shall ensure that while allocating subject/streams to the students in the higher classes, their collective analysis sheets are scrutinized and tallied at two separate levels so that discrepancy, if any, is rectified in the process of cross checking.
It is understood that some schools resort to practice of forcing students to change their subjects/streams in class XI after the class X results are declared and the students are often forced to change their subject combinations.
In view of the above orders of the Hon’ble High Court, it is expected that due care be taken by all Heads of Institutions, while allocating subjects/streams to the candidates in class XI. In case, if any change of stream is necessitated, the above guidelines may be adhered to in letter and spirit.
The Goa board of secondary and higher secondary education is likely to announce the Class 12th public exam results on May 21.
“The results are nearly ready; they only have to be printed now. They will most likely be announced on Monday,” a Goa board source informed. Of the 14,516 students who have answered the exams in the arts, commerce, science and vocational streams, 7,411 are girls and 7,105 boys. Another 797 reappeared for the test this year.
The graph of the Goa board Class 10th and 12th results has been volatile for the last five years. On an average, a pass percentage of 76% was recorded at Class 12th by the board until 2008, when the pass percentage went up to 79.32%. The upward swing continued in 2009 when for the first time in the board’s history, the pass percentage crossed 80 and touched 82.55%. The pass percentage saw a minor drop in 2010 to 82.52% and slid down to its 2008 record of 80% again in 2011. Get your CBSE Results 2012
The results’ announcement will end the wait for 14,516 students who have answered the e10thams held from March 3 to March 27.
This is the second year when students of Class 10th and 12th will get marked in both marks and grades. The grading system was introduced for the public exams during the last academic year, with which an internal assessment system is also in place to reduce the pressure on students to perform once a year at the board exam. The system of marks was continued along with grades when the new grading system was introduced last year to enable students to understand the allotment of grades better.
However, the board decided that students will be evaluated as per grades and marks for the 2012 exams as well. Get information on Goa University
The authorities of the Allahabad University (AU) would soon abolish the practice of realising enrolment fee from its students which they have to pay while getting their names enrolled in the departments while pursuing undergraduate or postgraduate courses. The final decision would be taken only after the approval of the Academic Council of AU, scheduled to meet on May 16, as the faculty board of Arts have decided not to charge any enrolment fee from the students.
Pointedly, when a fresh student gets admitted at Allahabad University, he or she deposits the annual fee along with an amount of Rs 100 in the name of enrolment fee. But even after paying the enrolment fee at the time of admission, every student deposits an amount of Rs 50 to Rs 200 at the respective departments of the allotted subject to get enrolled.
This extra fee, which differs from department to department, varies from Rs 100 to Rs 200 and has to be paid by every student to get enrolled each passing year. And this extra fee goes to the coffers of department, which maintains its own account. Moreover, this extra amount is being realised at a central university which gets crores of funds for developmental work.
Sources inform that this was introduced at a time when AU was a state university and as such was getting a meagre amount as grants. This fee was collected by the department to meet petty expenses, which the departmental authorities had to meet out from time to time.
“As most of the expenditures are met out by the AU authorities, there seems to be no use of having this enrolment fee, as now there is no crunch of funds at the departments now,” said one of the former head of the department at AU.
However, the decision to recommend abolition of the practice may prompt AU not to ask its students to deposit this extra fee from the coming academic session.
The Kerala state higher secondary exam results registered an all-time high pass percentage with 88.08 per cent of the students who appeared for the exam in March this year qualifying for higher education.
“Out of the 2, 93, 112 students who appeared for the examination 2, 58, 179 students qualified for higher studies in which 3, 334 students got A+ grade in all subjects,” the minister said.
Announcing the results of the higher secondary and vocational higher secondary examinations here on Tuesday, education minister PK Abdu Rabb said that the pass percentage has improved compared to the previous year’s result which saw 82.25 per cent of the students passing the examinations.
Kozhikode district became the district with highest pass percentage (90.96) while Pathanamthitta registered the lowest pass percentage (81.20).
Thrissur district figures the highest number of ‘A+’ grade students in all subjects with 383 students.
St Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, with 704 candidates became the school from where highest number of students registered for the exam. The school also registered a pass percentage of 95.60. This is followed by SV HSS, Palemde, Malappuram with 600 students registering for the exam and a pass percentage of 94.33 and Government HSS for Girls, Cotton hill, Thiruvananthapuram with 591students and a pass percentage of 96.28. Click here to get your CBSE Results
Out of 1, 56, 499 girl students who appeared for the exams, 1, 43, 620 qualified for higher studies (91.77%) and out of 1, 36, 613 boys, 1, 14, 559 (83.86%) qualified for higher studies.
In sector-wise analysis, out of 1, 34, 660 students from the government schools who appeared for the exam, 1, 18, 401 qualified for higher studies (87.93%),and in the aided sector, out of 1, 27, 855 students, 1, 13, 699 students became eligible for higher studies (88.93%). In the unaided sector, out of 30, 387 students who appeared for the exam, 25, 869 became eligible for higher studies (85.13%).
The vocational higher secondary examinations registered a pass percentage of 91.97 for part-I and II, and 84.73 percentage for part-I, II and III. By securing pass grades for part- I and II makes the candidate eligible for public service, apprenticeship, training and self-employment, while securing pass grades in part-I, II and III would make the candidate eligible for higher studies as well.
Subject-wise analysis shows that out of 1, 50, 478 science students, 1, 30, 910 became eligible for higher studies (87.00%). Out of 61, 374 humanities students, 54, 245 became eligible for higher studies (88.38%) and among 81, 260 commerce students 73, 024 became eligible for higher studies (89.86%).
Out of 26, 702 candidates who appeared for the VHSE exams, 24, 557 qualified for the part-I and II, while 22, 625 qualified for part-I, II and III. While Kozhikode district became the district with highest pass percentage in part-I and II with 97.94, Thrissur became the district with highest pass percentage in part-I, II and III with 94.01. Pathanamthitta district became the district which registered the lowest pass percentage.
The ongoing degree-level examination of Magadh University (MU) has been affected at B S College, Danapur, due to the Patnadistrict administration’s decision to convert the college campus into a strong room and counting centre for the Nagar Parishad elections which would continue till May 22.
Kumar said it was very difficult for the college to hold the examination in open on Saturday after the district administration occupied few rooms. As a result, at least five women examinees fainted in the sultry weather condition. They were immediately rushed to a local clinic for medical treatment, he said.
The principal said he had urged the district administration to make arrangements to hold the elections this time on the sprawling campus of a Danapur-based government school to enable the college hold the examination peacefully. Get information on Singahnia University
According to college principal Pravin Kumar, the college is currently holding degree (honours) level examination for Part II. A large number of examinees, mostly girls, are taking the examination at this centre. The college has few rooms and halls to conduct the examination. However, the district administration has started putting up barricades on the college campus, thereby causing much difficulty in holding the examination peacefully, he said.
SGTB Khalsa College and Dyal Singh College students now suffering from exams wrong question paper and exam time schedule. Just days after wrong question papers were supplied to BA (honours) students, SGTB Khalsa College on Friday did not receive its forensic science question paper at all, leaving several students waiting for the question papers. Third year students of applied zoology at Dyal Singh College began their exam at 11.15am even though it was scheduled to start at 9am.
While delhi university blamed the departments for not providing correct question papers, teachers blame it on the ‘illogical’ datesheet prepared by the exam branch.
“The title of the paper we initially received was wrong. But we realized the problem and got the correct papers. The students were given extra time,” said Principal I S Bakshi. The students were supposed to take molecular biology paper in the annual mode. Meanwhile, second-year students of BA (H) history had to wait for up to 45 minutes to get their exam paper for their first paper of Principles of Economics.
“We waited for half an hour and even the teachers seemed clueless as to why the papers were not ready,” said a student who did not wish to be named.
Lucknow University’s Executive Council (EC) determined to extend affiliation of 21 BEd colleges for the academic session 2012-13 on 09th May 2012. The list of colleges include Rajat Girls Degree College, City Academy Degree College, RKG Educational Institute, Mahaveer Prasad Degree College, Central Women College of Education, Eram Girls Degree College, Bora Institute of Technology and Management, Unity Degree College among others.
Dr Rajendra Prasad Girls Degree College and Veer Bahadur Singh Mahila Mahavidylaya, that were de-affiliated by National Council for Teachers’ Education (NCTE) last year but were again given affiliation by NCTE this year has also been given extension to run the course.
Besides, the Council also extended the affiliation of Basudev Memorial Girls College and Asha Smriti Mahavidylaya for the session 2012-13 on the condition that they will follow the instructions given by the lucknow university and reply immediately to any query asked by the university, else their affiliation will be cancelled in the next session.
However, the Council did not give affiliation to College of Innovative Management and Sciences to run the course.
The authorities of Kanpur University would be holding entrance exam for various courses run by it on its campus on May 15 and 16.
The Kanpur University administration informed that by May 30 the counselling of the students who would pass the exam would be held and the new academic session would probably commence from June 25.
The semester exams for B.Ed and LLB courses would on the other hand commence from May 16. The varisty has made available the exam schedule on its website.
Meanwhile, the authorities of the university informed that admission in courses like MSc Chemistry, Physics and Biology, Industrial Chemistry and Agriculture would be done purely on the basis of Merit. Admissions in MA Home Science and Geography, BSC Agriculture will also be done based on the students merit.
Kanpur University, on Tuesday, declared the result of MA final year. The results of Urdu, sociology, drawing and painting, music and psychology were announced.
Meanwhile, the work of evaluation of answer-sheets of different courses is going at the university these day. Hundreds of teachers are busy in checking the answer sheets.
Once the evaluation of copies of regular students would end, the answer booklets of private examinees would be checked.
BHU Exam dates clash, plea to change Inter physics date
May 5th, 2012
Board of Intermediate Education for the first time ever is holding ‘Betterment Examination’ for all subjects for the benefit of students who appeared for the final year Board Examinations held during March.
The BHU examination timings are from9.30 a.m.to12.30 p.m.The intermediate examination timings are from2.30 p.m.to5.30 p.m.
This betterment examination in physics is scheduled for May 16 and this clashes with the MBBS/BDS/BAMS/BPHARM Medical screening test conducted by Banaras Hindu University. A number of students fromVijayawada and Guntur region are appearing at this screening examination conducted only in four centres across India and one amongst them is Hyderabad(the only centre in Andhra Pradesh).
Students who applied for the screening examination from places other than Hyderabad will be deprived of the opportunity of taking this exam.
Only those students who qualified in the screening test will be called for the Main Examination to be held later in the year.
If the students cannot take the screening test they will not be eligible for the Main Exam.
The parents and students have request the Government to change the timings or the date so that it does not clash with the BHU screening test schedule that was announced well in advance.
UPSC Civil Services Exam 2011 results declared
May 5th, 2012
The Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) declared the Civil Services (Main) Examination 2011 results on Friday.
A total of 910 candidates, including 420 General, 55 OBC, 157 SC and 78 STs candidates, cleared the exam.
Girls appear to have once again beaten boys as Shena Aggarwal topped the merit list. She is followed by Rukmani Riar, Prince Dhawan, Mangesh Kumar, S Gopala Sundara Raj, Gitanjali Brandon, Himanshu Gupta, Harshika Singh, D Krishna Bhaskar and Aurangabadkar Amrutesh Kalidas.
The selected candidates would be considered for appointment in Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service and Central Services, Group A and Group B.
The number of vacancies reported by the government for the Indian Administrative Service is 170 (85 General, 46 Other Backward Classes, 26 Scheduled Castes and 13 Scheduled Tribes). The number of vacancies for the Indian Foreign Service is 40 (23 General, 9 Other Backward Classes, 5 Scheduled Castes and 3 Scheduled Tribes), while for the Indian Police Service, it is 150 (78 General, 37 Other Backward Classes, 21 Scheduled Castes and 14 Scheduled Tribes).
For the Central Services Group ‘A’, the number of vacancies is 543 (273 General, 148 Other Backward Classes, 81 Scheduled Castes and 41 Scheduled Tribes) and for Central Services Group ‘B’, it is 98 (52 General, 15 Other Backward Classes, 24 Scheduled Castes and 7 Scheduled Tribes). This includes 33 vacancies for physically challenged candidates.
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The UPSC has a facilitation counter near Examination Hall Building on its campus. Candidates can obtain any information /clarification regarding their examination/ recruitment on the working days between 1000 hours to 1700 hours in person or over telephone nos 23385271 / 23381125 / 23098543.
Result will also be available on the UPSC website. However, marks are likely to be available on the website within 15 days from the date of declaration of results.