Lily Wilkinson

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Dates for KCET 2020 exam released

Dates for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET or Karnataka CET) 2020 have been announced. The dates were announced by Dr Ashwathnarayan C N, Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka. The exam will be held in last week of July i.e. July 30 and July 31. Earlier, the exam was postponed by the state to prevent the spread of coronavirus and after that lockdown was announced in India. Earlier, the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) had fixed the exam dates on April 23 and 24. The registration process for the exam was concluded on march 16, 2020. The minister also said that the Pre-University (higher secondary or Plus 2) exams were midway and could not be completed because of coronavirus breakdown and the subsequent all India lockdown. According to the reports, around 1,94,000 students have registered for KCET exam. At the launch Mr Yediyurappa said, "Students are also suffering because of COVID-19. They are worried because of the lack of classes and coaching. This is online help for students preparing for NEET and CET. I trust this will help students who are preparing at home. I wish them well."

source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/dates-for-kcet-2020-exam-released-10372

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Odisha to begin Matric paper evaluation from 20 May

Odisha will commence the evaluation of Matric paper from May 20. Matric exams are conducted by the Odisha Board of Secondary Education (BSE). The board has assigned 60 centers across the state and has appointed 6000 extra evaluators for the task. The State Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash said that class 10th results will be released in July. The matric exams in Orissa were held from February 19 to March 2 and more than 5 lakh students appeared for the exams. The government is also aiming ‘zero fail mission’ for the upcoming batch of students and for this purpose it has decided to start extra class during the summer vacation. Through extra classes, weak students will be given extra attention. "Students who are weak in studies need special attention. Under the 'zero fail mission', we want to make sure that all schools in Odisha attain 100 per cent results," Mr. Dash has said in February.

source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/odisha-to-begin-matric-paper-evaluation-from-20-may-10371

Delhi Government looks forward for suggestions for reopening schools post lockdown

The Delhi government is seeking suggestions from various stakeholders such as students, teachers and principals for reopening schools post lockdown. The government has also provided an online suggestion form for the inputs from the stakeholders. The form is available on the official website of the Directorate of Education where stakeholder can give their inputs. "Respondents submitting practical and out of the box suggestions will be invited to share their thoughts with Education Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia through online platform.” "The dialogue sessions will be centered on how each stakeholder views the challenges and opportunities created by COVID-19 situation, constraints we are likely to face in times to come and steps that needs to be taken from now onwards to create an education set up that ensures equitable quality learning and well-being of all children in post lockdown phase," it added. Universities and schools across the nation have been closed since March 16 to prevent the widespread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24. The government of Delhi has already declared summer vacations in schools until June 30.

source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/delhi-government-looks-forward-for-suggestions-for-reopening-schools-post-lockdown-10370

More than 11 lakh students of class 11th to be promoted without exams in West Bengal

Amid coronavirus lockdown, the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education has asked its affiliated schools to promote all class 11th students to class 12th without holding the annual exams. In a letter dated May 11, Council President Mahua Das said “as decided by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee all class 11 students should be declared promoted to the next class.” Some of the papers of class 12th board exams and class 11th annual exams could not be conducted as they were scheduled on March 23, March 25 and March 27. The lockdown was announced on March 23. Earlier, the government had said that the higher secondary exams will be held any day after June 10 and class 11 annual exams will no longer be conducted. As a result, more than 11 lakh students will be promoted from class 11th to class 12th without exams.

source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/more-than-11-lakh-students-of-class-11th-to-be-promoted-without-exams-in-west-bengal-10369

Tamil Nadu to commence class 10th exams from June 1

According to the reports, Tamil Nadu will conduct class 10th exams from June 1 to June 12. The exam schedule was announced by State Education Minister KA Sengottaiyan. Earlier, the exams were schedule from March 27 but were postponed due to COVID-19 lockdown. According to the reports, a total of 36,482 class 12 students could not appear for the board exam on March 24 because of the restrictions on movement. "This exam will now be held on June 4," The Hindu has quoted Mr Sengottaiyan saying. He said that evaluation process for plus 2 exams will commence from May 27 and the schedule will be released soon. The Minister also said that steps will be taken to ensure that physical distancing among the students in exam centers. In Tamil Nadu, class 11th and 12th exams were started in the beginning of March and class 10th exams were scheduled from March 27. Class 12th exams were held from March 2 to March 24 and class 11th exams were scheduled from March 4 to March 26.

source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/tamil-nadu-to-commence-class-10th-exams-from-june-1-10368

Sunday, May 10, 2020

UP Board exams result in June

UP Board will release the results of board exams in June, said Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma. The Minister also said that evaluation of the papers which were conducted before the lockdown has begun in various parts of the state. Mr. Sharma said that the evaluation of the exams is currently going on in green zone and the same will be taken in red zones. "The work of evaluation of the answer sheets of the 10th and 12th board examinations of the Secondary Education Council Prayagraj will start from May 5 in the districts declared as green zones in the state," the minister had tweeted in the first week of May Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Council Secretary Neena Shrivastava had earlier said that nearly 56 lakh students had appeared for the exam. The results will be released on the official portal -- upresults.nic.in. Last year, the results of the annual board exams were released in April.

source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/up-board-exams-result-in-june-10367

IIT Roorkee launched advance certification course in Deep Learning

With an aim to up-skill youth during coronavirus lockdown, IIT Roorkee has launched an Advanced Certification Course on Deep Learning at Cloudxlab.com. The course is for advance learners and would cover cutting edge techniques applicable to audio processing, image processing, video processing, self-driving cars etc. IIT Roorkee and CloudxLab will conduct a webinar on careers in AI and Machine Learning on May 17. Interested persons can find the full details of the webinar at https://cloudxlab.com/course/84/certificate-course-artificial-intelligence-deep-learning-iit-roorkee/ "Nowadays many professionals wish for a career in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. This course provides a great opportunity for all such people," said Prof. Ajit K. Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee.

source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/iit-roorkee-launched-advance-certification-course-in-deep-learning-10366