CBSE Class 12 Boards: Ready for Monday’s economics paper?

Manju Arora | education  |  Updated: Apr 14, 2017 12:25 IST

 

Go through short notes to make sure all the chapters in your economics textbooks are covered. Get adequate rest and eat light to make sure you are alert but relaxed while writing the exam.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Most of you would have almost finished your revision for Monday’s Class 12 (Central Board of Secondary Education) economics Board exam. What can you do over the weekend to give your preparations an additional push?

1.Make short notes: Prepare effective notes of terms, definitions and important points chapter wise. If possible make a flow chart of every chapter which will suffice for final revision.

2.Evaluate comprehension of the topic: Go over the relationships between different economic variables with the help of a schedule and a diagram. Do a final revision of the conditions of consumer’s equilibrium as per utility approach and indifference curve approach and also of producer’s equilibrium. Evaluate your own understanding of the topic by doing some exercises. It will strengthen your learning process and will give you confidence in handling different types of questions in the topic.

3.Go over all diagrams: Practice diagrams and illustrations after reading short notes on each topic. Remember, during the exams, to ensure that your diagrams are supported by appropriate headings and arrow marks. For example, illustrations and diagrams of relationship between AC and MC, AP and MP, AR and MR should be learnt by heart.

4. Numerical problems: You will be required to solve numerical problems of 15-20 marks. Prepare an easy reckoner of formulas for quick reference before the examination. Practice national income accounting numerical of the three methods of measuring national income - value added, income and expenditure method.
Also practice numerical problems on cost, product, revenue, producer’s equilibrium and theory of income, output and employment.

5.Practice value based and multidisciplinary questions. Go through information on current economic policies and their impact on national income and production possibility curve - for eg impact of GST on national income.

6. Go for a final attempt of sample papers and practice questions .
Do past papers under thorough exam conditions over the last two days to familiarise yourself with the format of the exam and try to complete your paper within three hours. Get feedback Show it to a subject expert to see if you are repeating mistakes.

7. Here are some mistakes students make during the exam. Avoid them

(a)Forgetting to write formulae while attempting numerical problems
(b) Not writing complete definitions. For eg. while stating law of demand students usually forget to write ‘keeping other factors constant’
(c)While explaining equilibrium, not explaining situations occurring before and after the equilibrium point

8.Group study: If you’re doing group studies with friends just go over last-minute revision issues and don’t discuss the course covered or minute details. That might stress you out so have confidence in yourself.

9.Stay relaxed, not matter what: Go through the notes, get adequate rest and eat light. Avoid negative interactions with your peer group. Stay motivated and aim for good results.

10. Don’t study late: Lack of sleep can cause a serious drop in concentration levels and can also build up a great amount of anxiety.

All the best!

The author is head of department - Economics, Studymate (HT learning centres) and can be reached at studymate@hindustantimes.com

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Nita Ambani to unveil `Digital Learning Van' for Mumbai Indians' education initiative





The Education For All (EFA) initiative, launched in 2010 by Reliance Foundation and Mumbai Indians under the leadership of Nita M. Ambani, has focused on providing access to quality learning, thus impacting the education of 100,000 under-privileged children.

 

On the occasion of Mumbai Indians completing 10 years, the EFA is all set to launch a Digital Learning Van, which will provide thousands of children in Mumbai with access to digital technology .

The van, equipped with monitors, tablets, internet connectivity and cus tomised multimedia content, will also have trained teachers. It will be made accessible to school children across the city in partnership with EFA 's partner NGOs.

Through this van, Reliance Foundation seeks to create a model of digital education that ensures efficient learning outcomes among children.

Nita Ambani, who spearheads the EFA initiative, said, “The content will provide visual references that help students con nect theory to application. The launch of the `Digital Learning Van' will help EFA in achieving its larger goal of empower ing underprivileged children, making learning fun, and opening up a world of opportunities. This is a pilot that we are conducting and based on its outcome, we will look at scaling the number of Digital Vans in other cities as well.“

Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma and the Mumbai Indians team are actively engaged in the initiative and have exhibited their ardent support for the cause.The EFA programme supports various initiatives that work with underprivileged children, promotes girl-child education and imparts life skills to the differently abled.

In 2017, the programme will support 12 partner NGOs: Aarambh, Aseema, Deepalaya, Meljol, Milaan, Mumbai Mobile Crèches, One Billion Literates Foundation, Sakhi, Slum Soccer, Ummeed, Yuwa and Akanksha Foundation.

 

 

Source: Apr 06 2017 : The Times of India (NaviMumbai)

State launches new portal for FYJC admission

Vinamrata Borwankar  |  Mumbai:





The education department's Mumbai division on Thursday launched a new website for admissions to first year junior college (FYJC). On Friday , the admission process will begin with college registrations.

 Once, college registrations are complete, students will be able to access information about the number of available seats and last year's cut-offs, which will help them make an informed decision on college selection.

All junior colleges in Mumbai division will have to re-register on mumbai.11thadmission.net, the new admission portal. “ As the portal is new, colleges will have to fill details of seats available, last year's cut-offs etc.Once the details are filled, registration will be verified by the department,“ said B B Chavan, deputy director of education, Mumbai division. The online registration for colleges will be on till April 13. The verification will be done at VG Vaze College, Mulund, between April 10 and 15.The user IDs and passwords are being sent to junior college principals via SMS and email.

The department is also holding training sessions for school principals. “This year, a lot of procedure is changing and schools have to guide students to ensure forms are filled properly .For this, school staff is being trained to understand the new rules and formats,“ said an official.





 

 

Source: Apr 07 2017 : The Times of India (NaviMumbai)

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Why children must not start school till age 6 

 

Chris Weller  |  BUSINESS INSIDER





Kids Who Delay Kindergarten Have Higher Self-Control 

 

There's already a great deal of research suggesting children should start their school days later. Now, new research finds they should probably start their entire school careers later, too.

 

A study out of Stanford University has found kids whose parents waited to enroll them in kindergarten by age 6 (instead of 5) had measurably better scores on tests of self-control by the time they were 7 and 11.

Self-control -known to psychologists as “executive function“-is one of the more impor tant traits kids can possess in their early years. A strong degree of executive function signals kids are able to budget their time and maintain focus even when they're faced with distractions.

In the latest study , investigators Thomas Dee and Hans Henrik Sievertsen used the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC) study to collect their data.

The DNBC included responses from 54,241 parents on measures of mental health when their children were 7 years old and 35,902 responses when the kids were 11.

Dee and Sievertsen found kids who started kindergarten a year later than average students had 73% better scores on tests of their hyperactivity and in attention four years later.

Schools in Nordic countries aren't exactly strangers to enrolling kids in school later in life. In Finland, for example, it isn't uncommon for kids to begin formal schooling at age of eight. Much of their childhood is spent either at home or in a form of pre-kindergarten.





   

The Times of India  | Mar 22 2017 : (NaviMumbai)

 

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Mar 22 2017 : The Times of India (NaviMumbai)

CBSE unveils new exam format for classes VI to IX

Manash Gohain |  New Delhi:





Changes From Coming Year, CCE Junked

The Central Board of Secondary Education has formally junked the continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) scheme for classes VI to IX, being followed in affiliated schools since 2009.Replacing it from the coming academic year (2017-18) is a new format--`uniform system of assessment, examination and report card'-that aims at standardising teaching and evaluation across schools.

 

All students will be under a “uniform assessment“ process from Class VI onwards and schools will have to adhere to CBSE's template, from examinations to report cards, which will now bear the logo of the board.
CBSE said schools under its fold have been following various systems of assessment and examination in classes VI to IX. The change is a step linked to the restoration of the Class X board examinations from 2018, said board chairperson R K Chaturvedi.

The new format, he said, is a “gradually movement towards quality education through standardisation of teaching, assessment, examination and report card“.

Chaturvedi added that uniform standards had become imperative because dispa rities in the system were creating problems for students whenever they migrated to another school. “With the increase in CBSE affiliated schools from 309 in 1962 to 18,688 at present, a uniform system will ensure easy migration of students within the CBSE schools and also ease their dif The new report cards for classes VI to VIII will be identical with rows which specify the terms, periodic, notebook, subject enrichment and half yearly yearly marks scored in each subject and the corresponding grades. It will also have co-scholastic assessment where students will be graded on a 3-point scale.

The format changes in Class IX where the report card will have scores of a single yearly term comprising a periodic test, notebook, subject enrichment and annual examination. The co-scholastic grading will be on a five-point grading scale.

Under the CCE scheme students were assessed based on two term-end `summative assessments' and four `formative assessments' (two each in each terms).Sixty percent of the assessment was pen-paper tests, while 40% formative assessment during the year was continuous evaluation by teachers based on various activities.
The new scheme too has two terms, but the pen-paper test weightage will be now 90%, which includes the 80 marks of the half yearly or yearly exam and 10 marks of the 20 marks set aside for periodic assessment in each term. Each term will be of 100 marks of which 10 marks will be for note book submission and subject enrichment (five marks each) under periodic assessment.

While the half-yearly (term 1) exams for all the classes from VI onwards will be based on syllabus covered till the exam time, the syllabus for yearly exams will have a slightly different format. These exams will increasing cover more of term 1 syllabus, starting with 10% for Class VI, 20% for Class VII and 30% for Class VIII.

“This is to gradually prepare the students for Class IX and higher classes where they will have to appear for exams for the entire syllabus. But it will happen gradually,“ said Chaturvedi.

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CBSE Std X gradesheet to get a makeover from current session

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Nagpur: Even though CBSE's Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) scheme for Std IX and X is to be scrapped from 2017-18 academic session, the board has decided to make a major change in the gradesheet (mark sheet) from the current session itself. The 2017 summer exam gradesheet will have only Std X grades unlike the earlier CCE practice of publishing even Std IX grades on it. This change wasn't expected till summer of 2018.

Anmol Badjatia, principal of Jain International said, "This certainly came as a surprise to us. Also there won't be any descriptive indicators published in the gradesheet from now on." Badjatia added that the change does not pose any academic problems for students. "It's probably a change keeping logistics in mind. Regardless, students who did not do well in Std IX will be extremely happy that their grades now won't be reflected the final Std X gradesheet," said Badjatia.

KK Choudhury, CBSE's controller of examination informed schools on March 15 about this change. "After due consideration it has been decided that this year onwards CBSE will not include Std IX result in gradesheet-cum-certificate of performance of Std X. This provision will be application to both board-based and school-based candidates", Choudhary wrote to schools. But the board advised principals to still conduct the Std IX summative and formative assessments in its true spirit and failures of Std IX should not be promoted to the next class. "Further, in Std X for co-scholastic areas, certificate will be issued separately by the school," added Choudhary.

Also, for the current academic session CBSE has decided to collect CCE data (marks and reports) of Std X online only. The online data entry window began on Monday and will be opened till April 20. The board has warned schools to ensure timely completion of the task failing which a heavy penalty will be levied. If any school misses the deadline then the fines will range from Rs5,000 to Rs20,000. While the online data will be updated in the CBSE servers, a hard copy for records will still have to be sent to the regional CBSE office.

A few months ago CBSE decided to do away with the CCE scheme for Std X, which meant the return of the traditional board exam. The current format gives only 30% weight to board exams in the total marks scored, and that too from half the syllabus. The first batch under CCE format appeared for Std X exam in 2011 and the last one is currently giving the exams.



By - Abhishek Choudhari | TNN | Updated: Mar 22, 2017, 12.14 PM IST
 
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CBSE Class 10 Science Board Exam 2017: Very easy and straightforward NCERT based paper

The CBSE board exams for class 10 and 12 boards began on March 9. Today, class 10 students appeared for their second major paper which is that of Science. According to latest media reports, the students were quite happy with the paper.

The CBSE board exams for class 10 and 12 boards began on March 9. Today, class 10 students appeared for their second major paper which is that of Science. A total of 19, 85,397 students from Classes 10 and 12 are appearing for the board examination this year. Last year, the Class 10 exam began on March 1 and continued till March 28.

The Class 10 board examination will continue till April 10, while Class 12 boards will continue till April 29.

Students' reactions

According to latest media reports, the students were quite happy with the paper. They were completely satisfied with how the paper was framed and most of them are expecting more than 75 marks. 
In conversation with India Today education team, students of Ramjas school, Delhi said that physics had some tricky and twisted questions, otherwise the paper was extremely easy.

NCERT based diagrams

The questions were all direct and an average student will easily score between 50 to 60 per cent. The questions were all NCERT based and almost all the students attended 80 per cent of the paper. The diagrams were all from the NCERT itself and chemistry was the easiest part to attend.
 
The duration of the exam was of three hours. The examination began at 10:30 am and got over at 1:30 pm. The time allotted to read the question paper, which was distributed at 10:15 am, was 15 minutes. From 10:15 am to 10:30 am, students were given time to read the paper and go through it carefully.

The Science paper was divided into two sections: Section A and B. Section A comprised the theoretical part and carried 70 marks while section B comprised Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and carried 20 marks.

Source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/ |  New Delhi, March 22, 2017 | UPDATED 14:18 IST

CBSE grants concession to class 10 Mumbai student with learning disability

 

Less than a week after DNA reported about the class 10 student from Mumbai with learning disability who was being denied concession by CBSE citing delay in getting the certificate , the board has now rolled back its decision.

On Thursday, the CBSE's Chennai division , which Mumbai is a part of, sent a letter to the school granting concession to the student for the remaining exams. The letter granted a concessional time of 30 mins to an hour depending on the total marks of the paper. The letter came after city-based psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty wrote to the HRD ministry.

In 2016, the child was diagnosed with learning disability after which the school issued a letter to Nair hospital to get the necessary tests done and was expecting to get a certificate before December 2016, the due date mentioned by the CBSE to submit the documents.

The hospital gave the certificate a little late on February 20 , due to the large number of requests it had, confirming that the child had dyslexia and dysgraphia. The letter was forwarded to the CBSE in the next two days but was denied by the board citing delay.

Now with the concession being granted , the child can write the remaining papers with the additional time.
"We are finally relieved that the CBSE has granted concession to the child. We just wish that the board should have been considerate and taken note of the request before"said the mother of the student.

Dr Harish Shetty said that he would write to the HRD ministry to ensure that no such student suffers in the manner after this. "I will write to the HRD ministry and would urge them to take action against officials who denied the child his right " said Shetty.

By: Ankita Bhatkhande | Fri, 17 Mar 2017 | DNA webdesk

 

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