EAMCET likely to go online in 2015

The 2014 edition of Engineering Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) will be held on May 17 and the results will be declared on June 9, announced APSCHE Chairman Venugopal Reddy.

According to the announcement, notification for the exam will be issued on February 9 and the results will be declared on June 9. However, the date mentioned may be altered depending on the schedule of the General Election that is likely to be held sometime in April and May next year. The exam will be administered by the JNTU Hyderabad while N.V Ramana Rao has been appointed the Convener.

Also, odds are high that starting from 2015, the test will be conducted online on the lines of BITSAT and CAT. Prof. Reddy also hinted that efforts to turn EAMCET into an online entrance test were on.

AIPMT 2014 application form correction to begin from Feb 1, 2014

AIPMT 2014 Application Forms have begun and aspirants are filling in AIPMT 2014 Online Application Forms. However the aspirants while filling in the application forms are having some difficulty in filling and thereby are doing mistakes.
CBSE havebeen notified  regarding this and it has provided the candidates to correct the mistakes while filling in the Personal Details section of AIPMT 2014 Application Form.

Now it has not been officially notified by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The candidates will be able to correct the mistakes done in personal details column between February 1 and February 28, 2014.

Last year too CBSE has provided one month for correcting the mistakes done during Application Form filling in procedure.
AIPMT 2014 aspirants must note that only personal details shall be corrected and no other details can be changed or edited.
AIPMT 2014 Online Applications shall end on January 31, 2014.
CBSE shall be conducting AIPMT 2014 Exam on the scheduled date of May 4, 2014.

CBSE Class 10th Results 2014 to be declared in last week of May

CBSE class 10 results 2014 is expected to be declared in the last week of May 2014. The results will be declared on the official CBSE website www.cbse.nic.in. Class 10th board exams are commencing from Saturday, March 01, 2014 to Wednesday, March 19, 2014. CBSE has recently declared the complete class 10th and 12th date sheet

Source:http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/cbse-class-10th-results-2014-to-be-declared-in-last-week-of-may/1/334401.html

IIT test for common counselling

 The government has asked the Indian Institutes of Technology and the National Institutes of Technology to hold common counselling from this year to minimise seats going vacant at these engineering colleges.

But the 16 IITs, a notch above the 30 NITs in the pecking order, had defeated such a plan last year and are expected to oppose the latest Union human resource development ministry directive, too.

Over 600 seats had remained unoccupied in these tech schools last year, apparently because of separate counselling which allows a candidate to receive offers from an IIT and an NIT at the same time.

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/-.