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The central government on Friday decided to bring an ordinance to keep state boards out of the ambit of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) this year. However, students seeking admission to private medical colleges and deemed universities will have to take the exam, sources said. "The Union Cabinet has approved the ordinance. It will more...

Birla Institute of Technology and Science Aptitude Test (BITSAT) is an online examination conducted for admission to Bachelor of Engineering (B.E), Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm), Master of Science (M.Sc) in various disciplines offered at Goa and Hyderabad campuses of Birla Institute of Technology for the academic session 2016-17. While you prepar more...

The year, 2016 brought in a whole new world of possibilities and business opportunities. If someone were to highlight careers that are likely to prosper, I'd like to say that the year shall reward individual initiatives, storytellers and design engineers. It seems that the rise of the individual as an employment brand and the growth of modular wor more...

An interesting contest that is held every year, for students of science is the International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO). The contest is held in December every year. Students who are under fifteen years of age on January 1 of the year in which the contest is being held and who are studying in Class X or below are eligible to compete. "Indian A more...

The Supreme Court has recalled its 2013 judgment on the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and has now paved the way for a single entrance exam for admission to MBBS, BDS and PG courses in all medical colleges. Following the order, the NEET, a common entrance test system for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses, wi more...

JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) (Main) 2016 exam was conducted today, on April 9, 2016, at different centers in 132 cities across the country and abroad. A total number of 12.07 lacs candidates have registered for the same including the offline and online exam. JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) (Main) 2016 exam Paper description In total, there more...

To ensure participation of more women and differently-abled students in PhD programmes, Union Minister Smriti Irani announced a slew of measures including a two-year extension for them to submit thesis papers. Women and differently-abled students will get eight years, instead of six years, to submit their thesis, maternity leave benefit and mi more...

JEE (Advanced), formerly known as IIT-JEE, is an annual college entrance examination of the IITs. It is also one of the toughest engineering entrance exams in the world. Only around 2 lakh students shortlisted from JEE (Main) get to appear for JEE (Advanced). The offline JEE (Main) is scheduled for April 3 while the online computer-based test is sc more...

As an add-on facility, Union Health Ministry today introduced an online procedure of receiving application from medical colleges seeking to start post- graduation courses or increase seats in existing ones. After the online submission, applicants will have to upload a scanned copy of the consent of university, demand draft and other documents. As more...

A survey commissioned by The HRD Ministry highlights the tenfold increase in the number of IB schools in India for the past 10 years. Beginning with mere 8 institutes in 2000, today, the number of international schools has grown to 478. Karnataka has the second most, following Maharashtra. Both the International General Certificate of Secondary Ed more...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is conducting the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main examination on April 3, April 9 and April 10, 2016.   The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main is conducted to short list candidates seeking admission to undergraduate engineering programmes at NITs, IIITs, other centrally funded technical more...

TN Class X common exams in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry began today with totally 10,72, 223 students appearing from 12, 054 schools. Among the entire students writing the exam 5, 14,798 are boys and 5, 08,852 are girls. Apart from school students 48,573 are taking up through private. Totally 3369 centers have been setup for the entire exam that is to more...

The CBSE Class 12 board exams have started from March 1, 2016. This year, a total of 14,99,122 candidates have applied for the Class 12 exam, out of which 4,46,641 are girls and 6,21,259 are boys. The CBSE Physics exam is scheduled to be held on March 5. Before appearing for the exam, it is important to understand that the subject Physics requires more...

Citizenship: The applicant must be an Indian. Age: He/She must be above 21- but below 30 years on August 31 of the examination year. Relaxation of Age for IAS:For SC/ST- upto 35 years (5 years relaxation). They can apply until 35 years of age.For OBC- upto 33 years (3 years relaxation) can apply until 33 years of age. For Ex-serviceman upto 3 more...

Generally, group study is considered as pretence followed by students usually to cheat their parents. Today, more number of parents do not believe in group study as they believe and worry that their children use it as an opportunity to chat and pass time with friends in the name of study. Unless the students make proper arrangements and work with more...

Looking for a job is not easy, and when you are trying to find a job in a different city, in another part of the country or the world, a hoard of new challenges crop up. It is essential to showcase the best side of yourself in order to stand out from the local employees and land the job you desire. Check out the following tips if you're looking fo more...

With the technological revolution going around the world, we are losing out on the human touch. Everything is automated and thinking machines are gradually taking the place of human employees. In such a scenario, what is considered more valuable are the soft skills which can drum up business and improve the human connectivity. Even employees look a more...

With the CBSE Class 12 board exams are just around the corner, students should buck up as hardly one month is left for the exams. The exams for CBSE Class 12 students are set to begin from March 1 and will continue till April22.For CBSE Class 12 board exams, students mostly refer to the textbooks published by NCERT as they are prescribed by the boa more...

This year's first Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is just around the corner, and with candidates having to solve 200 questions in 150 minutes so as to assess their speed and temperament, it is necessary to understand which questions should be put more importance upon, and keep a proper paper-solving process set in your mind.The paper-based test is s more...

Board examinations for students belonging to Class 12 are set to begin in March. These tips are sure to help you score high: Set a timetable for yourself Identify a few direct questions which usually come in the exams and prepare them well Use fast reading technique to revise more in less time Try to present the questions in poin more...