INO Schedule and OCSC dates

The schedule of the INO is as follows:

• February 1, 2014 (Saturday) : 09:00 am – 12:00 noon (INAO)
  
• February 1, 2014 (Saturday) : 01:00 pm – 04:00 pm (INJSO)
  
• February 1, 2014 (Saturday) : 01:00 pm – 04:00 pm (INCHO)
  
• February 2, 2014 (Sunday) : 09:00 am – 12:00 noon (INPhO)
  
• February 2, 2014 (Sunday) : 01:00 pm – 04:00 pm (INBO)
  

S.No	Tentative Schedule	Tentative Dates
1	Centre allotment to students	Jan 10, 2014 (Friday)
2	Question Paper and tentative solutions on the HBCSE website	Feb 04, 2014, 5.00 PM (Tuesday)
3	Comments on the tentative solutions (e-mail ids will be provided)	Feb 04-08, 2014
4	Frozen solutions on the HBCSE website	Feb 19, 2014 (Monday)
5	Mailing of performance cards from HBCSE	Feb 19, 2014
6	Re-evaluation request deadline	Mar 5, 2014 (Wednesday)*
7	List of candidates selected (Results)	Mar 8, 2014 (Saturday)

* Please wait for the performance card till Feb 27, 2014 before contacting us.

Tentative Dates for OCSC

Physics :                    April 10 – 21 , 2014
Mathematics – Jr :      Apr 21 – May 15 , 2014
Mathematics – Sr :     May 1 – 15 , 2014
Astronomy Jr. :          May 1 – 7 , 2014
Astronomy Sr :           May 28 – June 5 , 2014
Chemistry :                May 27 – June 6 , 2014
Biology :                    June 4 – 12 , 2014
Junior Science :          May 8 - 27, 2014

Source:http://olympiads.hbcse.tifr.res.in/announcements

CBSE Came Up With another Reform to Encourage Students for Application-Based Study

From 2014 onwards, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is going to give a sigh of relief to those students who are not good at rote learning. The CBSE has planned to mention formulas in the question paper that would be vital to answer the questions. This plan would be functional from this year onwards.
The move of the CBSE board in planning question paper reforms by making question papers more of an application-based is to discourage the method of rote learning among students.
As a part of question paper reforms, CBSE also introduced Open Text-Based Assessment (OTBA) from 2013-14 exam session meant to be given by class IX and XI students. The OTBA from 2014-2015 will also be introduced in classes X and XII of CBSE affiliated schools.
CBSE also set up subject committees with having 2-3 experts who will work on modalities of the classes XI and XII question papers. These question papers will be framed keeping in mind that they become application-based, in which students will not be asked to first derive the formulas.
A senior CBSE official said that formulas would be provided in the paper and students will only then have to identify the right one that will be used to correctly solve the numerical problem.
On this plan the committees are recommended to submit their opinions and suggestions by February 2014. The Board then following them will implement the changes that will be reflected from the new academic session of 2014-15 for Class XI and 2015-16 for Class XII.
CBSE has already applied Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation system for secondary level classes, which is intended to make the teaching and learning process leaning to an application-based methodology.
CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi spoke on the question paper reform plan that CCE is currently implemented in Class X only. The board has come up to these reformsto discourage students from the prevalent method of rote learning and so that more time could be then be devoted to applications-based study at senior secondary level, which is more useful and fruitful.

CBSE Class 10th Optional Proficiency Test registration dates extended

On popular request Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has extended the registration dates for its Class 10th Optional Proficiency test to 31st January 2014. The Optional Proficiency Test will be held after the completion of CBSE Class 10th exams 2014 and aims to gauge the students' understanding in the various subjects. Any student studying in a CBSE affiliated school and appearing for CBSE 2014 Secondary (Class 10th) exams is eligible for the Optional Proficiency test and may register for desired subjects through their respective schools. On completion appeared Students will receive CBSE certificate and percentile ranks.

Exam Dates:

• English: 14th April, 2014
• Mathematics: 15th April 2014
• Science: 16th April 2014
• Social Science: 17th April 2014           
• Hindi: 18th April 2014

The examination will be pen and paper based and consists of multiple choice questions. Each subject has maximum 100 marks and a duration of 2 ½ hours. Negative marking is applicable. The test is based on Class IX and Class X syllabus but will not have any recall/memory based questions and will focus on skills, abilities and understanding based questions. Style of questions will be based on observing, comparing, classifying, solving, translating, interpreting, analyzing, synthesizing, creating, composing, deducing, justifying and judging/evaluating.

Registration Fees for 1 Subject is Rs. 300/-, for 2 Subject is Rs. 400/-, for 3 Subject is Rs. 500/- and for 4 or 5 Subjects is Rs. 600/-.

JEE Main 2014: Intermediate First and Second Year Marks Will be Considered for AP Students

Now the students from Andhra Pradesh will have to do exceptionally well both in the first year and the second year intermediate exams, the reason is, IIT JEE 2014. Yes, from now both the first and second year intermediate marks will be considered for JEE Main 2014 selection process.

Andhra Pradesh: According to the reports from AP Official, the marks of both Intermediate I and II years will be considered for the normalization of marks for JEE Main 2014 Merit Ranks. In Andhra Pradesh what happen is both first and the second year examination are board exams.

KVPY 2013: INTERVIEWS CENTRE DETAIL

 Jaipur Centre 1 for SX Candidates

List of Candidates: Stream SX
Venue:
Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Campus, JLN Marg
Jaipur-302017
Date of the Interview: 19 – 22 January, 2014
The following SX candidates who wrote the aptitude test at Jaipur centre are requested to be present for the interview as per the following schedule. (The interview call letter will be despatched by 1st January 2014 by speed post).
The students are requested to fill the following forms as well and bring these along with the original call letter for the interview.

• Study Certificate : Stream SX
• Self-Appraisal Form
• Teacher Recommendation form

Trivandrum Centre

List of Candidates: Streams SA/SB/SX
Venue:
IISER - Thiruvananthapuram
Computer Science Building, College of Engineering Trivandrum Campus
Trivandrum – 695 016
Date of the Interview: 23 - 25 January, 2014
The following SA, SB & SX candidates who wrote the aptitude test at Bangalore, Kochi and Trivandrum centre are requested to be present for the interview as per the following schedule. (The interview call letter will be despatched by 2nd January 2014 by speed post).
The students are requested to fill the following forms as well and bring these along with the original call letter for the interview.

• Study Certificate : SA  SB  SX
• Self-Appraisal Form
• Teacher Recommendation form

Source:http://www.kvpy.org.in/main/interviews-trivandrum.htm

CBSE announces date sheet for 2014 Board exams

After the New Year bash it is time for class X and XII students to gear up for Board examinations as Central Board for Secondary Education, CBSE, has announced the date sheet. Board exams for both classes would begin from Saturday, March 1. Where class X exams would begin with easy exams like Marathi, Spanish, Painting etc, Class XII exams would begin with English examination. As per CBSE's Regional Director, RJ Khanderao, this year 10% more students will be sitting for Board examinations in both class X and XII.

The class X exams would end on March 19 where as class XII exams would go on till April 17. All the exams would begin at 10.30am.

State Wise Selection For IJSO Stage II

Sl. No	State Name	State Code	No. of Students
1	Andhra Pradesh	AP	134
2	Bihar	BH	7
3	Chattisgarh	CG	2
4	Delhi	DL	16
5	Gujarat	GJ	6
6	Harayana	HR	6
7	Jharkhand	JH	6
8	Karnataka	KN	5
9	Kerala	KR	2
10	Madhya Pradesh	MP	12
11	Maharashtra	MH	35
12	Orissa	OR	4
13	Punjab	PB	3
14	Rajasthan	RJ	22
15	Tamil Nadu	TN	14
16	Uttar Pradesh	UP	26
17	West Bengal	WB	3
TOTAL			303