CBSE makes "Problem Solving Assessment" compulsory for classes 9 and 11 students.

he Central Board of secondary Education (CBSE) is conducting a Problem Solving Assessment (PSA) exam for Class 9 and Class 11 students from 10 am to 12 noon on November 20, 2014.

The PSA exam was introduced in the last year as a pen-paper based test to evaluate the verbal communication, critical thinking, analytical reasoning, creative thinking and decision making skills amongst the school students.

This year, the CBSE PSA question paper will have 60 multiple-choice questions (MCQ) and will be of a total of 60 marks instead of 90 marks which was the total score of the last year exam. It will be conducted in English or Hindi. The paper will have three sections:

Language Conventions, it carries questions of Grammar and Usage, Vocabulary in Context, and Passage Completion.

Qualitative Reasoning, which will carry questions on Generic Thinking Skills like coding-decoding, patterns etc; and Passage-based MCQs to evaluate Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS).

Quantitative Reasoning, which will carry questions on Basic Mathematical Concepts and Practices, and Passage-based MCQs that will be based on advances of Science & Technology and other areas of interest.

According to CBSE this PSA exam is compulsory for all Class 9 and Class 11 students. The students of class 10 and 12 who wish to appear for the PSA exam in order to improve their last year score are also allowed to do so.

PSA score will be counted towards FA4 assessment for Class 9 students. For the students of class 11 a separate certificate will be issued for the PSA exam by CBSE.

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CBSE selected 1,000 girls under the UDAAN Project

CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education, has received a total number of 14, 575 applications for admissions in IIT this year. Out of these applications 1000 applications by girls have been selected under the UDAAN project. These girls have also been provided with online study material to prepare for the entrance exams of IIT.

CBSE has launched this project UDAAN to provide free online resources to girl students of class XI and class XII for preparation of admission test for the premier engineering colleges in the country.

The project UDAAN has been kick started by CBSE in order to increase the number of girl students getting admissions in IIT. Under this project 1000 girls would be selected who would be provided with free of cost coaching for their engineering entrance exams.

The study material provided to these girl students is prepared with the help and inputs from the IIT Delhi, CBSE School and the students as well as teachers of BITS Pilani.

On the occasion of selection of these students our HRD Minister Smriti Irani was presnt along with the Chairman of CBSE Mr. Vineet Joshi and principals of many schools.

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Odisha government to start up with OJJE again along with JEE

The policy planning board on professional education in Odisha Friday recommended that the Odisha government join the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) 2015 for admission to premier technical institutes in the country.

Odisha will join the JEE (Main) for the second year along with Gujarat and Maharashtra to facilitate the students seeking admission in engineering courses in various institutions, including IITs and NITs in the country. The students can also get admission in the state institutes.

However, the students seeking admission into MBA, MCA, lateral entry and Pharmacy in the institutes of the state will have to appear in the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE).

"The students will participate in JEE Main, which is the existing system, to get admission to the technical institutions of the state and the country," said former high court judge Justice A.K. Parischa, who headed the policy planning board.

The board, however, left to the government the decision to hold separate OJEE for the students even after they participate in the JEE Main.

Meanwhile, the application process started Friday for the JEE (Main) to be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in April 2015.

The Odisha Private Engineering Colleges Association (OPECA) was demanding re-introduction of the OJEE for B.Tech. admission.

Despite a special state-level JEE examination conducted at the direction of the Odisha High Court last year, nearly 37,000 seats have remained vacant in the state's 101 private and 10 government colleges. Only 11,000 students are pursuing technical courses in the state.

IITs and NITs are working together on a new software that will make possible common counseling.

As for common counseling, the HRD ministry has to submit affidavit in the Delhi High Court on November 30. On August 1, the HC had directed the ministry to set up a technical committee for regular sittings/consultations to sort out the process of common counseling for NITs and IITs so that it can be implemented from 2015-16. HC had asked the HRD ministry and IITs to consider whether the reserved category seats in the IITs, if unfilled, can be transferred to the general category. The ministry was also asked to find out if there exists any provision for lateral entry into IITs in the second year. 

HC had asked petitioner Rajeev Kumar to make suggestions on common counseling to the ministry. In a detailed note, Kumar has suggested that a Common Board for Admission to IIT and NITs be constituted and it should maintain a web-portal as a single interface with the candidates for admissions to IITs and NITs. Kumar has suggested that candidates who qualify in JEE (advanced) and are given ranks that make them eligible for admission in IITs must be automatically registered by the common board. 

Candidates, Kumar suggested, will submit common preference list of their choices through the web-portal maintained by the common board. Seats will be allotted by the common board as per the admission norms of IITs and NITs.

IIT-M ties up with Purdue University for doctoral candidates

CHENNAI: IIT-Madras on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with Purdue University in the US to enable joint supervision of doctoral candidates between the two institutions. Representatives of the two institutions hoped the partnership will lead to a joint PhD programme later. 

The agreement allows Purdue faculty to co-advise doctoral students at IIT-Madras and vice versa. "This will help foster international experience for students at the two universities, with student visits to the other university. There will be a co-adviser from another country," Purdue University president Mitch Daniels said. Purdue University is the third most prominent STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) university in the US, and is ranked highly among world universities in The Times Higher Education World University rankings and the US News and World Report rankings of undergraduate programmes. 

More than a dozen faculty members from seven departments at IIT-M are involved in collaborative research with their counterparts at Purdue, which has 1,500 students from India. 

The heads of the two institutions spoke about reforms brought in to keep pace with the way students learn and the requirements of the job market. Daniels said they were looking to transform at least one of the university's colleges to a project-based mode to allow students to move through the course according to their potential. Competency-based degrees will be awarded to students based on demonstrated mastery of concepts and skills rather than performance measured only at fixed calendar intervals of classroom time. 

The institutions have also been dabbling in hybrid modes of teaching, like flip classrooms and embedded learning that do not insist on "seat time", or how much time a student spend in class or taking notes, but in project-based learning and interactive exchanges and to find out which student is struggling with which concepts. 

IIT-M director Bhaskar Ramamurthi said the institute gives students flexibility to learn on their own and go to faculty on a needs only basis. We are forming clubs that are challenge-based, like on water, education, transportation or healthcare, because disruptive solutions are multi-disciplinary, he said. "We realise that business as usual is going to leave us out of business," he said.

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New educational policy likely to come out next year: Smriti Irani

Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Sunday said the new educational policy of the BJP-led NDA government is expected to be rolled out next year.

“The deliberations on the proposed new policy will start next year and we should have a policy. We will start a new educational policy soon. Educational policy takes seven months to three years and politicians, bureaucrats and experts draw it up. But there is need to involve principals, teachers and students in the educational policy,” she said.

Ms. Irani was speaking at a valedictory function of the 21st Annual Sahodaya conference of CBSE at nearby Nedumbassery.

Addressing principals and teachers from CBSE schools across the country and abroad, she said, “The future of the country lies in your hands. I say this not only as HRD minister, but as also a mother of two CBSE school going kids.”

Pointing out that India is going through an evolution, she said the nation’s destiny has for too long been vested on those who did politics and now there was a chance to transform India for the better.

“I stand here as witness of the desire of people to seek transformation and this cannot happen only in government. It should happen at the grassroots and teachers should be a vehicle to bring about the change,” she said.

The minister, who also rolled out ‘Saransh’, a tool for comprehensive self-review in schools, said it was a big step.

It should not be used as a ‘pressure tactic’, but as an enabler, especially for children with learning challenges, she added.

Placement of top Engineering colleges in India .

There is a list of premier engineering colleges, from where students got highest pay packages last year.

Google offered 93 lakh per annum package to IIT Kharagpur. IIT Roorkee students.

Facebook laso offered IIT Roorkee students whopping package of 80 lakh INR.

Facebook and Google readily offered 80 lakh INR + salaries to the exceptional students at NIT.

The Delhi Technological University, until last year, did not see great packages. The highest offered was 58 lakh but this year, Google offered 93 lakh INR, which speaks volumes about the boost in talent at this college.

The famed college, National Institute of Technology (NIT Suratkhal), was proud to reveal that the top company Goldman Sachs placed students from its campus. The package offered was that of an unprecedented 28 lakh.

The average package offered at IIT-Ropar in 2013 was 10.7 lakh INR.

Top recruiters at VIT were Intel, IBM, Honeywell, VMware, ST Microelectronics, Robert Bosch, Ernst & Young, and Wipro.

Google and Facebook showed keen interest in hiring from IITs and other top engineering colleges in India but that doesn’t mean they were the only ones.

The number one colleges in India, IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi, saw national and international recruiters hasty to place the students. In fact, at IIT Bombay, more than 100 companies registered well before the placement season began. More than 250 companies visited IIT-Kharagpur. IIT-Rourkee welcomed 60 companies within the first 6 days of campus placements.

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VTU centralises placements

Students of engineering colleges in rural areas as well as those that are not considered to be in the top league are set to benefit from the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) decision to streamline the placement process. Hitherto, most campus placements were restricted to colleges in main cities.

For the first time, the VTU will conduct centralised placements for the batches of 2014 and 2015. Instead of companies visiting individual college campuses, the placement process will be conducted for colleges clubbed together at the VTU’s regional centres.

Explaining the rationale behind the centralised recruitment drive, VTU Vice-Chancellor H. Maheshappa said the centralised system was aimed at providing equal opportunities to students from across colleges, especially in rural areas, as campus placements were earlier concentrated on Bangalore-based colleges.

This follows an experiment done last year at the University B.D.T. College, Davangere. “Companies too conveyed to us that it is difficult to visit each college. Under the new system, they will be able to select from a larger pool of students and those from rural areas can benefit out of this,” he said.

Geo D’Silva, placement officer, VTU, said the first phase of the recruitment drive would have around 15 companies participate and would be open to students from undergraduate and postgraduate disciplines. Students interested in participating in the recruitment drive had to register and clear a company-specific online test on November 5 to be eligible. They would later be called for the interviews.

Around nine companies will be recruiting students from the 2014 batch, eight companies from the 2015 batch and two each from MBA and M.Tech. batches.

KITEE 2015 Important dates

KIITEE 2015 Entrance Exam from April 21, online application from December 2, 2015

The Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Entrance Examination 2015 (KIITEE 2015) will be conducted from April 21 to April 30, 2015, as mentioned on the university's website. The examination will be conducted online across 120 centers in India.

The online application forms and prospectus for KIITEE 2015 will be available at the university's websites www.kiitee.ac.in and www.kiit.ac.in from December 2, 2014.

• Educational Qualification

Applicants should have passed Class 12 with 60 per cent marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
Applicants should have regular mode for various UG courses.

• Age Limit

Applicants' age should be between 17 years to 21  years for graduation and 24 years to 27 years for postgraduation, KIITEE 2015 .

• Application Procedure

Applicants can apply through online application for KIITEE 2015 and send the system generated application form with all required documents and certificates to the Director Admissions, KIIT University Koel Campus, Bhubaneswer - 751024 Odisha, India.

• Important Dates

The application form can be filled from December 2, 2014. The examination will be conducted from April 21 to April 30, 2015.

CBSE to conduct special engineering entrance prep sessions for girls; Application ends Nov. 4

The last date for Udaan Application is November 4, 2014. 

Under this programme, girl students of class XI and class XII will be provided free online resources for preparation of admission test for the premier engineering colleges in the country.

Udaan aims at improving the learning of Science and Mathematics at senior secondary level with its focus on special support to 1000 selected disadvantaged girls per year in which 50% enrollment will be from general category and remaining 50% will be from SC/ST/Backward Class category. Free of cost assistance for IIT-JEE entrance examination preparation will be given to these girls.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Girl students currently enrolled in Class XI and XII in PCM stream
• Minimum 70% marks in Class X overall and 80% marks in Science and Mathematics; for boards which follow CGPA, a minimum CGPA of 8 and a GPA of 9 in Science and Mathematics
• For Class XII students, a minimum of 75% marks in PCM in Class XI in addition to the Class X requirements

Note:

• Selection will be based on merit basis.
• Preference will be given to girl students from economically disadvantaged background.

Click here for online application.

Features of Udaan:

Some of the salient features of the programme are as follows-

• Free of cost
• Preparatory material through an online portal
• Tutorials, videos, study material
• Virtual contact classes
• Tablets provided with preloaded content to allow 24x7 learning
• Motivation sessions with students/parents
• Student help line to clarify doubts, monitor student learning and support technology
• Points accrued during assessments and mentoring activities to be converted to money used for fees, if selected in IITs and NITs.